Advantages of Deployment Manager
- Infrastructure as Code: Deployment Manager enables you to define your infrastructure as code, making it easier to version control and automate your deployments.
- Automated Deployments: Deployment Manager automates the deployment of your infrastructure and applications, reducing the risk of manual errors and making it easier to manage your resources.
- Idempotent Deployments: Deployment Manager provisions resources in an idempotent manner, ensuring that you can run it multiple times without causing unintended consequences.
- Integration with other Google Cloud Services: Deployment Manager integrates with other Google Cloud services such as Google Cloud Storage, Google Cloud DNS, and Google Compute Engine, making it easier to deploy and manage your infrastructure.
Google Cloud Deployment Manager
Pre-requisite: Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Deployment Manager is a tool that helps automate the deployment of resources on the Google Cloud Platform. It works by allowing you to define the desired state of your resources in a YAML configuration file, and then Deployment Manager takes care of creating, updating, and deleting those resources to match the defined state.
For example, you can use Deployment Manager to define a set of virtual machines, along with their associated firewall rules, disk images, and network interfaces. Then, Deployment Manager will create and manage those resources for you, ensuring that they are always up-to-date and that any changes you make are automatically applied.
This helps simplify and streamline the process of managing resources on Google Cloud, reducing the risk of manual errors and making it easier to automate your infrastructure. With Deployment Manager, you can manage a wide variety of resources, including virtual machines, databases, load balancers, and networking components, among others.