Terraform for Google Cloud: Learn Infrastructure as Code

Explore the Google Kubernetes Engine architecture, including the control plane, cube API server, TCD database, scheduler, controller manager, and cube cloud manager, plus pods and namespaces.

Learn how configuration management and provisioning tools like Ansible and Terraform automate infrastructure on GCP, balancing mutable versus immutable infrastructure and declarative versus procedural approaches.

Learn to create a Google Cloud Compute Engine instance with Terraform using a configuration file, following six steps: set up the project, enable APIs, authenticate, write config, apply, destroy VM.

Authenticate Terraform with Google Cloud by creating a service account, granting roles, downloading a key, and configuring authentication via the Google application credentials environment variable or a file path.

Declare required providers and provider blocks with source and optional version in Terraform, and understand Terraform core versus plugins architecture, including how init installs provider plugins.

Learn how to use Terraform output values to print Google Compute instance details in the CLI, including the instance ID and CPU platform, and organize outputs in an outputs.tf file.

Define local values in Terraform and replace hardcoded labels with a local block, then reference locals in compute instances to set application name and environment consistently.

Explore essential Terraform commands for Google Cloud, including init, plan, apply, and destroy; learn how show and refresh help verify and synchronize state with remote resources.

Configure Google Cloud Storage as a remote backend for Terraform state by enabling the storage API, granting the Terraform service account storage admin, and creating a unique bucket.

Learn how Terraform modules encapsulate resources into reusable components for development, testing, and production. Discover how modules enable consistency, versioning, and easier updates through reusable design and automated testing.

Apply a module example to build a home loan microservice infrastructure on Google Cloud using Terraform, provisioning Google Kubernetes Engine, memory store, and cloud storage.

Configure a Google Cloud network with Terraform by creating a VPC and subnet, setting up providers and credentials, then enable GKE, Memory Store, and Cloud Storage APIs.

Refactor your GCP Terraform setup into reusable modules to provision memory store, cloud storage, and a Google container cluster across environments, with variables for VPC, subnet, and deployment specifics.

Learn to move Terraform modules from local folders to a GitHub source repository, configure remote modules, and manage production and staging environments with versioned GitHub tags.

Learn how to use for_each with modules in Terraform to create multiple Google Compute Engine instances via module blocks.

Refactor Terraform configuration to remove module duplication by using for_each and locals, enabling multiple affordable compute engine resources across west and east regions with static IPs and VPCs.