In a real-world setting, development and production environments are configurations that are logically separated in order to detect and address potential threats throughout the delivery process. Although these environments are separate, it's common for them to mirror one another. With this mirroring of configurations, developers tend to copy and paste majority of the environment configurations. This process is time consuming, and when done manually, they can be prone to error.

Terraform provides the ability to import remote module definitions in order to cut down on the process of duplicating similar environments. Terragrunt can be used on top of this functionality to configure the differing values of each environment from a single file in the project directory.

In this lab, you will learn how to use Terragrunt environment variables to simplify the deployment process to separate Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this lab, you will be able to:

• Learn how to simplify deployments to separate Google Cloud Platform environments with Terragrunt

Intended Audience

• Individuals and teams looking for ways to scale their Terraform codebase with Terragrunt
• Individuals and teams seeking an introduction to using Terragrunt with Google Cloud Platform

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the following will be beneficial but is not required:

• Basic concepts of Google Cloud Platform
• Basic concepts of Terraform
• Managing remote state with Terragrunt
• Passing output variables between Terraform modules

The following content can be used to fulfill the prerequisite:

• Deploying Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure with Terraform
• Working with Terraform Remote State in GCP
• Passing Outputs Between Terraform Modules with Terragrunt in GCP

Updates

June 9th, 2023 - Updated instance image

April 28th, 2023 - Updated theia to include autosave