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...