Building a service catalog with Terraform solutions

Note

A Google Cloud organization is required to create a service catalog. See Creating and managing organizations (https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-organization) for how to create an organization.

A service catalog enables IT organizations to offer approved services to an enterprise. Google Cloud provides a service catalog as a managed service to offer cloud services using a self-service model, which is one of the essential characteristics of cloud computing (https://bigdatawg.nist.gov/_uploadfiles/M0006_v1_3333767255.pdf).

That is, a user can browse a service catalog, pick from a list of service offerings, and then provision the required resources. Behind the scenes, we use Terraform to provision the solution, so the end user does not need to know the details of Terraform and uses an easy-to-use web interface to fill out any configuration details. The service catalog solution hides the complexity...