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Define and Deploy Resources with Google Cloud Deployment Manager

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 45 minutes

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Description

Google Cloud Deployment Manager is a service that allows you to define and deploy resources in your GCP environment, as well as create templates and configurations. By defining templates, you only have to specify the resources once and then you can reuse them whenever you want. Google Cloud Deployment Manager also gives you the possibility to use Jinja or Python to define the resources you desire. This way, you can use a declarative language to define the resources, and this will help you set their properties and granularities.

In this lab, you will set up two templates using Jinja: the first one will be for defining a VPC and the second will be for defining a storage bucket that you will then deploy. You will define a configuration file that will import the two templates, before finally moving on to deploying the configuration.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:

Understand what templates and configurations are
Define a template using Jinja
Structure a configuration using YAML
Deploy a configuration on Cloud Deployment Manager

Intended Audience

This lab is intended for:

Google Cloud Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) certification candidates
Solutions architects who want to define and deploy resources by following the IaaC (Infrastructure as a Code) paradigm
Individuals who want to understand how to repeat deployment processes