Creating tailor-made instances using Deployment Manager

GCP provides various options to programmatically create resources needed for an application. The Cloud Deployment Manager provides a repeatable and testable method to specify all the resource needed for an application. The templates can be written in simple YAML files, Jinja templates, and Python templates. The template-driven approach allows us to parameterize and build resources with built-in logic. The templates can be treated as infrastructure as code.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification and network creation steps before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project
2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs such as BigQuery, storage, and monitoring are enabled automatically)

How to do it...

Let's say that organization ABC has a standard practice to keep the application data stored in a non-boot disk and local databases saved in another separate non-boot disk. In this recipe, we'll create...