GDG London Workshop: Build GCP infrastructure with Terraform
- 1. Building Infrastructure on GCP Pradeep Bhadani Founder, Cloud Native Technologies https://www.linkedin.com/in/pradeepbhadani/
- 2. About Me IT Consultant with 8+ years of experience. Expertise ● Big Data ● Cloud (GCP & AWS) ● DevOps Cloud Native Technologies
- 3. Agenda ● Terraform Introduction ● Terraform Lifecycle ● Setup Terraform ● Setup gcloud ● Hands-on exercises Cloud Native Technologies
- 4. What we need for workshop? ● Access to a GCP account ● Project owner or Project editor role on a GCP Project ● Text editor or IDE - Atom or IntelliJ or your choice ● Terraform and gcloud setup Note: Running workshop example may incur charges on your GCP account. Cloud Native Technologies
- 5. Terraform Terraform allows to build, change and version our infrastructure in an easy and efficient way. terraform.io Cloud Native Technologies
- 6. Terraform features ● Infrastructure as Code ● State of Infrastructure with CRUD operations ● Infer dependencies ● Execution plan ● Resource graph ● Parallel execution Cloud Native Technologies
- 7. Terraform concepts ● Providers: API interaction and authentication ● Resource: Describe infrastructure object(s) ● Module: Collection of resources defined in a way ● Data Source: Read infrastructure information ● State: Stores information about infrastructure created by Terraform code ○ Local: Stores on local filesystem ○ Remote: Stores on remote storage - GCS, S3, Consul etc. Cloud Native Technologies
- 8. Benefits ● Code reuse ● Easy resource management ● Resource tagging ● Savings - $$$$ and time ● Consistency Cloud Native Technologies
- 9. Terraform Lifecycle Cloud Native Technologies Init terraform init Plan terraform plan Apply terraform apply Destroy terraform destroy
- 10. Terraform Setup (Mac Users) $> brew install terraform $> terraform -help Cloud Native Technologies
- 11. Terraform Setup (Linux Users) $> wget https://releases.hashicorp.com/terraform/0.12.15/terraform_0.12.15_linux_amd64.zip -O /tmp/terraform.zip $> terraform --help $> sudo unzip /tmp/terraform.zip -d /usr/local/bin/ Cloud Native Technologies
- 12. gcloud setup $> curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash $> exec -l $SHELL $> gcloud init Cloud Native Technologies
- 13. Let’s build something Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash