Advanced HCL: Dynamic Blocks and Lifecycle Preconditions ☁ GCP 🔥 Advanced HCL Dynamic Blocks Preconditions Firewall Scenario You are writing a complex `.tf` file to rapidly spin up testing Compute Instances with specific open firewall ports. Instead of hardcoding 10…

Encryption: Customer Managed Encryption Keys (CMEK) ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud KMS KeyRing CryptoKey CMEK Scenario By default, all Google Cloud Storage data is encrypted using Google Managed Encryption Keys. For regulatory compliance, your client requires Customer Managed Encryption Keys…

Container Images: Artifact Registry Repository ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Artifact Registry Docker IAM Scenario Before you can deploy containers to Cloud Run or GKE, you must store their images in a secure registry. Google Cloud replaced the legacy “Container Registry…

Kubernetes: Deploying a GKE Autopilot Cluster ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner GKE Autopilot Kubernetes Containers Scenario Your team wants to deploy workloads to Kubernetes, but they don’t want the operational burden of managing Node Groups, VM scaling, or Kubernetes version upgrades.…

Serverless Containers: Deploying to Cloud Run ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud Run Serverless Containers Scenario You have a stateless web application packaged as a Docker container. You don’t want to deal with Kubernetes. Cloud Run is Google’s Knative-based serverless container…

Static Delivery: Cloud CDN caching a Cloud Storage Bucket ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud CDN Backend Bucket Load Balancing Scenario You have a folder of static frontend assets (images, CSS, JS) that need to be delivered to global users with…

Egress Networks: Cloud NAT and Cloud Router ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Cloud NAT Cloud Router Egress Scenario You have provisioned a Virtual Machine sitting on a custom VPC subnet. For security, you explicitly did not give the VM a public…

Terraform State: Creating Multiple Resources with Count ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Terraform Core HCL Count Scenario Your data engineering team is running an experiment and needs 3 identical Cloud Storage buckets, one for each phase of their pipeline (ingest, process,…

Terraform State: Creating Managed Resources with For_Each ☁ GCP 🟢 Beginner Terraform Core HCL for_each Pub/Sub Scenario Your microservices architecture defines 3 Pub/Sub topics: orders, payments, and shipping. Instead of writing three resource blocks, or using count (which would break…