Deployment Manager as native IaC in GCP - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Deployment Manager as native IaC

📖 Scenario: You are working as a cloud engineer for a company that wants to automate the creation of a simple Google Cloud Storage bucket using Deployment Manager. This will help the team avoid manual steps and keep infrastructure consistent.

🎯 Goal: Build a Deployment Manager configuration that defines a Google Cloud Storage bucket as infrastructure as code (IaC). You will create the initial configuration data, add a property for the bucket name, define the resource, and complete the configuration for deployment.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a dictionary called resources to hold the deployment resources.

Add a variable called bucket_name with the exact value my-sample-bucket-123.

Define a resource dictionary for a storage bucket using the type storage.v1.bucket and the name my-bucket.

Complete the configuration by adding the name and properties keys correctly inside the resource.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Automating cloud infrastructure creation helps teams deploy resources quickly and consistently without manual errors.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and DevOps professionals use Deployment Manager or similar IaC tools daily to manage cloud resources efficiently.

1

Create the initial resources dictionary

Create a variable called resources and set it to an empty list to hold deployment resources.

GCP

resources = []
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Think of resources as a list where you will add your cloud components.

2

Add the bucket name variable

Add a variable called bucket_name and set it to the string "my-sample-bucket-123".

GCP

resources = []
bucket_name = ""
# Your code here

Need a hint?

This variable will hold the exact name of the storage bucket.

3

Define the storage bucket resource

Add a dictionary to the resources list with keys: name set to "my-bucket", type set to "storage.v1.bucket", and properties as an empty dictionary.

GCP

resources = []
bucket_name = "my-sample-bucket-123"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

This dictionary describes the bucket resource for Deployment Manager.

4

Complete the bucket properties with the bucket name

Inside the properties dictionary of the first resource in resources, add the key name with the value from the variable bucket_name.

GCP

resources = [
    {
        "name": "my-bucket",
        "type": "storage.v1.bucket",
        "properties": {
            # Your code here
        }
    }
]
bucket_name = "my-sample-bucket-123"

Need a hint?

This sets the actual bucket name in the deployment configuration.