Project configuration in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

GCP Project Configuration Basics

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a new Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project for a small business. This project will host their website and store data securely.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to configure a GCP project by creating a project dictionary, setting a billing account, enabling APIs, and adding labels for organization.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary named gcp_project with specific project details

Add a billing account ID as a configuration variable

Enable a list of APIs using a loop

Add labels to the project dictionary for better organization

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Setting up and configuring cloud projects is a common task when starting new applications or services in GCP.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and administrators often configure projects, billing, and APIs to prepare environments for development and production.

1

Create the initial GCP project dictionary

Create a dictionary called gcp_project with these exact entries: 'project_id': 'my-sample-project', 'name': 'Sample Project', and 'region': 'us-central1'.

GCP

# Create the gcp_project dictionary with project_id, name, and region
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use curly braces to create a dictionary and include the keys and values exactly as shown.

2

Add the billing account ID configuration

Add a variable called billing_account_id and set it to the string '0123-4567-89AB'.

GCP

gcp_project = {
    'project_id': 'my-sample-project',
    'name': 'Sample Project',
    'region': 'us-central1'
}
# Add billing_account_id variable below
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the billing account ID as a string to the variable named exactly billing_account_id.

3

Enable required APIs for the project

Create a list called apis_to_enable with these exact strings: 'compute.googleapis.com', 'storage.googleapis.com', and 'cloudfunctions.googleapis.com'. Then use a for loop with the variable api to iterate over apis_to_enable.

GCP

gcp_project = {
    'project_id': 'my-sample-project',
    'name': 'Sample Project',
    'region': 'us-central1'
}
billing_account_id = '0123-4567-89AB'
# Create apis_to_enable list and loop over it
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Create the list with the exact API names and write a for loop using api as the loop variable.

4

Add labels to the GCP project dictionary

Add a key 'labels' to the gcp_project dictionary. Set it to another dictionary with these exact entries: 'env': 'development' and 'team': 'devops'.

GCP

gcp_project = {
    'project_id': 'my-sample-project',
    'name': 'Sample Project',
    'region': 'us-central1'
}
billing_account_id = '0123-4567-89AB'
apis_to_enable = ['compute.googleapis.com', 'storage.googleapis.com', 'cloudfunctions.googleapis.com']
for api in apis_to_enable:
    pass  # Simulate enabling the API
# Add labels dictionary to gcp_project
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Add the labels key with a nested dictionary inside the existing gcp_project dictionary.