Preface

Google Cloud has adopted Terraform as the standard Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool. Thus, a good understanding of Terraform is essential for any cloud architect and engineer working on Google Cloud. Yet no specific resources are available that focus on how to use Terraform on Google Cloud.

This book is the first book that teaches the reader about Terraform specifically for Google Cloud. We will take you on a journey from the basic concepts to deploying complex architectures using Terraform. Using easy-to-understand code examples, we will show you how to authenticate Terraform in Google Cloud, teach you all the essential concepts of the Terraform language as applied to Google Cloud, and deploy complete working architectures at the push of a button. We will also show you how to improve your Terraform workflow using Google Cloud-native and third-party tools.

By the end of this book, you will have gained a thorough understanding of Terraform and how to use it on Google Cloud. You will have learned how to develop effective Terraform code, build reusable modules, and utilize public domain Terraform modules to deploy on Google Cloud faster and more securely.