Category Terraform-GCP-Labs

NoSQL Database: Provisioning a Firestore Database ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Firestore Datastore Mode NoSQL Scenario Your serverless app requires a flexible, fast, heavily scalable NoSQL document database to store application profiles. Instead of provisioning a heavy Cassandra or MongoDB cluster,…

Multi-Project Networking: Shared VPC ☁ GCP 🔥 Intermediate Shared VPC Host Project Service Project IAM Scenario In enterprise environments, networking resources (VPCs, VPNs, Interconnects) are centralized in a single “Host Project” managed by the Network Administrators. Developers build applications in…

DevOps: CI/CD Pipeline with Cloud Build ☁ GCP 🔥 Intermediate Cloud Build Cloud Run CI/CD GitHub Scenario You want code pushes to automatically build a Docker container and deploy it to serverless infrastructure. Instead of using GitHub Actions or Jenkins,…

Observability: Cloud Monitoring Alert Policies ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud Monitoring Alert Policy MQL Observability Scenario You want to be notified if the average CPU utilisation of your Compute Engine instances goes above 80% for more than 5 minutes. You…

Event-Driven: Eventarc, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Run ☁ GCP 🔥 Intermediate Eventarc Cloud Run Pub/Sub Event-Driven Scenario When a user uploads an image to a Cloud Storage Bucket, you want an asynchronous background process to immediately resize the image. Instead…

Asynchronous Messaging: Pub/Sub Topics and Subscriptions ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Pub/Sub Messaging Decoupling Scenario In event-driven architectures, services communicate indirectly. When a user creates an order, the “Orders Service” publishes an event, and the “Invoicing Service” listens for it. In…

Cron Jobs: Cloud Scheduler Triggering Pub/Sub ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud Scheduler Pub/Sub Cron Scenario You have a batch process that needs to run every night at 2:00 AM to aggregate analytics. Instead of keeping a VM running just to…

Edge Security: HTTPS Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Armor ☁ GCP 🔥 Intermediate Cloud Armor WAF Load Balancing SSL Scenario An HTTP load balancer isn’t enough for production. You require encrypted HTTPS connections and protection from DDoS attacks or…

State Capstone: Import blocks, moved blocks, and prevent_destroy ☁ GCP 🔥 Advanced State Management CLI Refactoring Scenario An administrator “ClickOps’d” a critical Cloud Storage bucket directly in the GCP console. You need to bring it under Terraform management using the…

Autoscaling: Managed Instance Groups and Instance Templates ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Autoscaling MIG Instance Template Scenario A single Compute Engine VM is a single point of failure and cannot handle varying amounts of traffic. To solve this, you use a…