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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

You're reading from   Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions Develop scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language

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Product type Course
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647438
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Compute 17. Storage and Databases 18. Networking 19. Security 20. Machine Learning and Big Data 21. Management Tools 22. Best Practices 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Creating a custom VM using Terraform


Terraform is a powerful tool used for defining infrastructure as code on various platforms. Two of the biggest advantages of Terraform are its simple templating language (HashiCorp Configuration Language, also known as HCL) and its state maintenance. Terraform's role of provisioning plays well with other configuration management tools. The configurations given to Terraform are converted into API calls to perform the provisioning. Also, when a change is made to the desired state, for example, the count of instances is updated from two to three, Terraform keeps track of the state and launches the creation of one new instance.

In this recipe, similar to the tailor-made VM we created using the Deployment Manager in the previous chapter, we will create a simple VM with two additional disks using Terraform.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps before the recipe can be executed:

  1. Create or select a GCP project
  2. Enable billing and enable...
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