Part 2: Completing the Picture: Provisioning Infrastructure on Google Cloud
In this part of the book, we apply the concepts introduced in the first part of the book to construct three complete architectures using Terraform. We start with a traditional three-tier architecture. We show how to use layers effectively and how to expose state information between the layers. In Chapter 7, we deploy a modern cloud-native architecture using only serverless services. One of the services, Google Cloud Run, blurs the line between infrastructure and application. We contrast using Terraform to deploy Cloud Run services to using gcloud. In this part’s last chapter, we use modules from the public Terraform registry to deploy a GKE cluster in two environments (development and production) by only varying variable assignments.
After reading this part, you will have deployed three very different architectures using Terraform while also gaining a deeper understanding and appreciation of the power of Terraform.
This part of the book comprises the following chapters: