GCP IAAC Automation

Assumption: GCP Free tier account

As a part of Cloud migration/development, we need to develop application which is Cloud Native and then deploy those resources to Cloud (public/private/Hybrid). Most of the Cloud provider support many managed services ,which we can use and deploy those resources.

Resources could be

· Application deployed on VM/GKE cluster/App Engine

· Load balancer

· VPC Network, subnet

· Database

· IAM

· Pub/sub

· Firewall

· Cloud storage

· Big query

As a part of learning curve initially, we can use below tool

GCP web console

GCP cloud shell

API

Disadvantages

· Manual process

· Error prone

· Time consuming

· No governance

· Not possible to review

All those resources are part of infrastructure we are creating, this need to be automated so that we can reuse the template to create the resources. We need to perform infrastructure as a code (IAAC).

We make use of

· Terraform – open source IAAC

· Deployment Manager – GCP IAAC