Projects as organizational units in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Organizing Cloud Resources with GCP Projects

📖 Scenario: You are managing cloud resources for a small company. To keep things organized, you want to create a Google Cloud Platform (GCP) project that will act as a container for all related resources like virtual machines, storage buckets, and databases.

🎯 Goal: Create a GCP project with a specific project ID and name, set a billing account, and enable the Compute Engine API to prepare the project for resource deployment.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a GCP project with the exact project ID my-sample-project-123 and name My Sample Project

Set the billing account ID to 000000-000000-000000 for the project

Enable the Compute Engine API for the project

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Cloud projects in GCP act like folders or containers to organize resources, billing, and permissions. Setting up projects correctly is the first step in managing cloud infrastructure.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals regularly create and manage projects to keep cloud resources organized, secure, and cost-controlled.

1

Create the GCP project resource

Write a Terraform resource block named google_project with the resource name my_project. Set the project_id to "my-sample-project-123" and the name to "My Sample Project".

GCP

# Define the google_project resource with project_id and name
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use the resource keyword with google_project and set the project_id and name exactly as specified.

2

Add billing account configuration

Add the billing_account attribute to the existing google_project.my_project resource. Set it to the exact string "000000-000000-000000".

GCP

resource "google_project" "my_project" {
  project_id = "my-sample-project-123"
  name       = "My Sample Project"
  # Add billing_account attribute here
  # Your code here
}

Need a hint?

Add the billing_account attribute inside the google_project.my_project resource block with the exact billing account ID.

3

Enable the Compute Engine API

Create a Terraform resource block named google_project_service with the resource name compute_api. Set the project attribute to google_project.my_project.project_id and the service attribute to "compute.googleapis.com".

GCP

resource "google_project" "my_project" {
  project_id      = "my-sample-project-123"
  name            = "My Sample Project"
  billing_account = "000000-000000-000000"
}

# Enable Compute Engine API
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use google_project_service resource to enable the Compute Engine API for the project.

4

Add project labels for organization

Add a labels block inside the google_project.my_project resource. Set the label environment to "development" and team to "cloudops".

GCP

resource "google_project" "my_project" {
  project_id      = "my-sample-project-123"
  name            = "My Sample Project"
  billing_account = "000000-000000-000000"
  # Add labels block here
  # Your code here
}

resource "google_project_service" "compute_api" {
  project = google_project.my_project.project_id
  service = "compute.googleapis.com"
}

Need a hint?

Use the labels map inside the project resource to add organizational tags.