GCP Console walkthrough - Mini Project: Build & Apply

GCP Console walkthrough

📖 Scenario: You are starting to learn how to use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Console. This is the web interface where you can create and manage cloud resources like virtual machines, storage, and databases.Imagine you want to organize your cloud projects and see the resources inside them.

🎯 Goal: Learn to navigate the GCP Console by creating a project list, selecting a project, and viewing its resources.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a list of GCP projects with exact names and IDs

Add a variable to select a specific project by its ID

Write a function to list resources for the selected project

Add a final step to display the selected project and its resources

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Cloud engineers often manage multiple projects in GCP and need to select and view resources per project using the console or scripts.

💼 Career

Understanding how to organize and access cloud projects and their resources is essential for cloud administrators and developers working with GCP.

1

Create a list of GCP projects

Create a variable called projects that is a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary must have the keys 'name' and 'project_id' with these exact entries: {'name': 'Project Alpha', 'project_id': 'alpha-123'}, {'name': 'Project Beta', 'project_id': 'beta-456'}, and {'name': 'Project Gamma', 'project_id': 'gamma-789'}.

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# Create the list of projects with name and project_id
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a list with three dictionaries. Each dictionary has keys 'name' and 'project_id' with the exact values given.

2

Select a project by its ID

Create a variable called selected_project_id and set it to the string 'beta-456' to select the project with that ID.

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projects = [
    {'name': 'Project Alpha', 'project_id': 'alpha-123'},
    {'name': 'Project Beta', 'project_id': 'beta-456'},
    {'name': 'Project Gamma', 'project_id': 'gamma-789'}
]
# Set selected_project_id to 'beta-456'
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the string 'beta-456' to the variable named selected_project_id.

3

Write a function to list resources for the selected project

Write a function called list_resources that takes a parameter project_id and returns a list of resource names. For this exercise, return ['Compute Engine VM', 'Cloud Storage Bucket'] if project_id matches any project in projects. Otherwise, return an empty list.

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projects = [
    {'name': 'Project Alpha', 'project_id': 'alpha-123'},
    {'name': 'Project Beta', 'project_id': 'beta-456'},
    {'name': 'Project Gamma', 'project_id': 'gamma-789'}
]
selected_project_id = 'beta-456'

# Define list_resources function below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Loop through projects, check if project_id matches, then return the fixed list of resources.

4

Display the selected project and its resources

Create a variable called selected_project that finds the dictionary in projects where 'project_id' equals selected_project_id. Then create a variable called resources that calls list_resources with selected_project_id.

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projects = [
    {'name': 'Project Alpha', 'project_id': 'alpha-123'},
    {'name': 'Project Beta', 'project_id': 'beta-456'},
    {'name': 'Project Gamma', 'project_id': 'gamma-789'}
]
selected_project_id = 'beta-456'

def list_resources(project_id):
    for project in projects:
        if project['project_id'] == project_id:
            return ['Compute Engine VM', 'Cloud Storage Bucket']
    return []

# Find selected_project and get resources
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Loop through projects to find the one with matching project_id and assign it to selected_project. Then call list_resources with selected_project_id.