Infrastructure Automation

Terraform

  • Infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, allowing us to quickly provision and remove infrastructures
  • It provides the following features:
    • A repeatable deployment process
    • A declarative language
    • Parallel deployments
    • Template-drive infrastructure

Google Cloud Marketplace

  • Let’s us quickly deploy production-grade solutions from third party vendors, who already made their deployment configurations based on Terraform
  • Google Cloud automatically updates the images provided on the marketplace, but it does not upgrade already deployed infrastructure
  • Google Cloud Marketplace provides direct access to partner support