Automation in the Google Cloud Platform (CNMM Axis-3)
As discussed in previous chapters as well, automation is one of the key aspects when looking at optimally deploying and managing your applications in cloud. So in line with this, Google Cloud apart from offering many services which help automate processes and workflows, also has a rich set of APIs and SDKs. In fact, based on developer's individual preferences there are multiple options for SDK client libraries, including Java, Python, NodeJS, Ruby, Go, .Net and PHP, that provide flexibility and ease of automation and integration. So in the upcoming section, let's explore this further and look at various options for automation and DevOps implementations.
Infrastructure as code
Google Cloud offers a service that is very similar to AWS CloudFormation, called Google Cloud Deployment Manager, using which infrastructure components can be easily authored in a declarative fashion (YAML) to automate various provisioning and automation-related tasks...