Complementing Google Cloud Platform with automation

Another global cloud provider is Google, with its GCP. Google’s approach to the cloud is different from other providers’ since Google does not try to simulate the data center in a virtual environment. This is because Google wants to rethink the concept of cloud provision in order to simplify it.

Installation

You need to ensure that you have the proper components installed before you can start using GCP with Ansible. More specifically, you will require the Python requests and google-auth modules. To install these modules, run the following command:

$ pip install requests google-auth

We can now proceed to install the Google Cloud collection:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install google.cloud

Now that you have all the dependencies present, you can start the authentication process.

Authentication

There are three different approaches to obtaining a working set of credentials in GCP:

• The service...