Terraform for Google Cloud Essential Guide

Learn how to provision infrastructure in Google Cloud securely and efficiently

Bernd Nordhausen

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Terraform for Google Cloud Essential Guide

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About the author

Bernd Nordhausen is an independent cloud consultant and Google Cloud trainer. He is a seasoned cloud architect with over 25 years of experience working with industry leaders such as Intel and Accenture. He holds over a dozen cloud certifications from all three major cloud service providers.

Bernd was previously the technical lead for the Google Cloud practice at Accenture Southeast Asia. In that role, he developed and implemented several large-scale deployments on Google Cloud using Terraform.

In a different century, Bernd received his B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Alabama, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Irvine. When his head is not in the cloud, Bernd is an aspiring woodworker and trail runner. He also has a website where he talks more about his work, expertise, services and life at https://www.nordhausenconsulting.com/

I’d like to thank Packt for reaching out and encouraging me to write this book, and then for the great people they brought in to help. I particularly want to thank Radek Simko for his excellent feedback. His input made this book what it is.

About the reviewer

Radek Simko is a senior software engineer at HashiCorp. He has been involved in various parts of the Terraform ecosystem for the last 5 years. He has contributed to maintaining the AWS provider, created the official Kubernetes provider, and bootstrapped the initial decoupled version of the plugin SDK. Since early 2020, he has been focusing on improving support for Terraform in editors via a dedicated language server. Prior to HashiCorp, he worked at Time Inc. for over 3 years, where he pioneered Terraform and proposed a number of bug fixes and features externally as an open-source contributor. Radek was born and raised in the Czech Republic, but he calls the UK his second home and enjoys traveling in his free time.