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GCP Spanner Database

Google Cloud Spanner is Google Cloud’s fully-managed, horizontally-scalable, relational database service.
A Spanner database is the logical container that holds your tables, schema objects and data inside a Spanner instance. Each database inherits the instance’s compute and storage configuration and can be encrypted either with Google-managed keys or with a customer-managed key (CMEK).
For an overview of the service see the official documentation: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/overview

Terrafrom Mappings:

  • google_spanner_database.name

Supported Methods​

  • GET: Get a gcp-spanner-database by its "instances|databases"
  • LIST
  • SEARCH: Search for gcp-spanner-database by its "instances"

gcp-cloud-kms-crypto-key​

A Spanner database can be encrypted with a customer-managed encryption key (CMEK) stored in Cloud KMS. When CMEK is enabled, the database resource is linked to the specific gcp-cloud-kms-crypto-key that provides its encryption.

gcp-spanner-instance​

Every Spanner database lives inside a Spanner instance. The database inherits performance characteristics and regional configuration from its parent gcp-spanner-instance, making this a direct parent–child relationship.