Unable to Create DigitalOcean Volume

[ShivamB25]

issue while trying to create a DigitalOcean volume for the workspace.indicating authentication failure with DigitalOcean, preventing the creation of the volume.
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Run the coder create command with the specified configuration.
2. During the process, when creating a DigitalOcean volume, an authentication error occurs.

Expected Behavior:
The DigitalOcean volume should be created successfully as part of the workspace provisioning process without authentication errors.

Actual Behavior:
The creation of the DigitalOcean volume failed due to an authentication issue, and the workspace provisioning process was interrupted.

Additional Information:

• Terraform Version: 1.4.6
• DigitalOcean Token: doctl was authenticated + export DIGITALOCEAN_TOKEN= (was done after ensuring write permission was given)

Error Message:

2023-10-02 09:47:29.116+02:00 Error: Error creating Volume: POST https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/volumes: 401 (request "09e271cb-8298-49ef-b219-cd3445e8e60e") Unable to authenticate you
2023-10-02 09:47:29.116+02:00 on main.tf line 266, in resource "digitalocean_volume" "home_volume":
2023-10-02 09:47:29.117+02:00   266: resource "digitalocean_volume" "home_volume" {

main.tf

[ShivamB25]

@matifali sir any bypass/workaround for this?

[matifali]

@ShivamB25, the issue looks like you have an authentication problem with the provider. This is possibly a bug with do provider. Have you searched their issues or filed an issue with them?

[ShivamB25]

@matifali i am using the api key with both doctl with exported as a variable too on the command line

[matifali]

The variable needs to be set where Coder is installed and should be accessible to the Coder user. This really depends on how Coder is run.
If you are running coder as a system service, the place would be /etc/coder.d/coder.env if you are using the docker image, then it should be provided as an environment variable to the coder container.

[ShivamB25]

The variable needs to be set where Coder is installed and should be accessible to the Coder user. This really depends how Coder is installed. If you are running coder as a system service the best place would be /etc/coder.d/coder.env if you are using the docker image then it should be provided as an environment variables to the coder container.

running as non-service / docker.
it is running a on a non-root user on ubuntu

[matifali]

@ShivamB25 try this https://coder.com/docs/v2/latest/install/packages

[ShivamB25]

@matifali i will try running it as a service and input those vars and give it a try again in a bit. thanks

[ShivamB25]

@matifali thanks it worked with service file not sure why wasn't it working with exported env and doctl already authenticated

[matifali]

Authenticating doctl CLI and authenticating the terraform provider are two different things. The coder user runs terraform, so the coder user needs access to this env variable. Glad that you fixed it.

[ShivamB25]

much thank for advising using service file instead