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GCP Spanner Instance

A Cloud Spanner instance is the top-level container that defines the geographical placement, compute capacity and billing context for one or more Cloud Spanner databases. When you create an instance you choose an instance configuration (regional or multi-regional) and allocate compute in the form of nodes or processing units; all databases created within the instance inherit this configuration and capacity. Google manages replication, automatic fail-over and online scaling transparently within the boundaries of the instance.
For full details see the official documentation: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/instances

Terrafrom Mappings:

  • google_spanner_instance.name

Supported Methods​

  • GET: Get a gcp-spanner-instance by its "name"
  • LIST: List all gcp-spanner-instance
  • SEARCH

gcp-spanner-database​

Each Cloud Spanner instance can contain multiple Cloud Spanner databases. The gcp-spanner-database resource is therefore a child of the gcp-spanner-instance; enumerating databases or assessing their risks starts with traversing from the parent instance to its associated databases.