Configure a Firestore database in App Design Center

Firestore is a flexible, scalable database for mobile, web, and server development from Firebase and Google Cloud. This document describes the connections and parameters you can configure when using App Design Center to create a Firestore database. The configuration parameters are based on the terraform-google-firestore Terraform module.

Component connections

The following table includes the components that you can connect to a Firestore database, and the resulting updates to your application and its generated Terraform code.

Component

Description

Background information

Compute Engine instance templates

Adds the roles/datastore.user IAM role to the Compute Engine instance template's service account.
Adds the Firestore database ID to the Compute Engine instance template's metadata field.

Configure per-database access permissions

Cloud Run service

Adds the roles/datastore.user IAM role to the Compute Engine instance template's service account.
Adds the Firestore database ID to the Cloud Run service's environment variables.

Required configuration parameters

If your template includes a Firestore component, you must configure the following parameters before you deploy.

Parameter name	Description and constraint information	Background information
Project ID	The project where you want to deploy the Firestore instance.	Creating and managing projects
Database ID	The ID of the Firestore database. Defaults to `(default)` .	Database ID
Region	The location where the Firestore database is deployed.	Locations