Setting Up Your Terra Cloud Account
To start, you’ll need a Google Cloud account. You can go here to sign up for one if you don’t currently have a Google account. Next, link this account to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), link here. If you haven’t linked your account to GCP, you’ll get a free $300 credit. Log in to the Google Cloud Platform and activate your account by clicking on the Activate button and setting up a billing account.
You’ll need to enter in some form of payment information to create a billing account, even if you are just planning on using the free $300 credit. You’ll have a billing account called “My Billing Account” which is where your free $300 dollar credit is balanced.
After activating the account, you’ll then need to link Terra to your GCP billing account. To do this, go to “Billing Accounts” tab and click on the box next to “My Billing Account” and click on “ADD MEMBER” box on the right.
Then add [email protected] to the “New Principals” box and select the role as Billing -> Billing Account User in the “Select a role” drop-down box. Hit save.
You should see a new member Role/Principal as “Billing Account User”. If you click the down arrow you should see either [email protected] or [email protected]. Either is fine.
From there go to the Terra homepage, sign in with the same Google account that you used for the GCP. Click on the drop-down menu by clicking on your name, then go to “Billing” and hit the “+ CREATE” button to make a new billing project. Name it and make sure to select “My Billing Account” under “Select billing account” menu.
After the billing project is setup, you're good to go!