GCP - Pre-requisites

Pre-requisites

with admin access to provision infrastructure. You will need a paid subscription to the GCP.
Install - to authenticate & connect with GCP APIs.
Install (any version) on the local machine - it helps interact with the Kubernetes cluster.
Install - helps package the services, configurations, environments, secrets, etc, into . Verify that the installed version of Helm is equal to 3.0 or higher.

// command to check helm version
helm version

Install - for the (IaC) to provision cloud resources. This provides the desired resource graph and helps destroy the cluster in one go.

// On Linux
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gnupg software-properties-common
wget -O- https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/hashicorp-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.releases.hashicorp.com $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hashicorp.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install terraform

// On Mac
brew tap hashicorp/tap
brew install hashicorp/tap/terraform

(Optional) Install - to run different versions of Terraform on the machine. supports multiple Terraform versions on the same machine, and you can toggle between the desired versions.

// On Mac
brew install warrensbox/tap/tfswitch

// On Linux
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/warrensbox/terraform-switcher/master/install.sh -o install.sh
sudo bash install.sh

Run tfswitch, and it will show a list of Terraform versions. Scroll down and select the Terraform version (0.14.10).

PreviousGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)NextSetup GCP Account

Last updated 2 days ago

Was this helpful?