Question

Your operations team currently manages all Google Cloud infrastructure using Deployment Manager templates. Leadership has asked you, as the cloud architect, to advise the team on adopting a widely supported infrastructure-as-code tool that supports multi-cloud state management and a large community module ecosystem, while ensuring the team can programmatically preview changes before applying them. Which recommendation should you give the team?

Accepted Answer

Migrate the infrastructure definitions to Terraform, use remote state in a Cloud Storage backend, and adopt 'terraform plan' as a required step before every apply.

Answer

Continue using Deployment Manager and add gcloud shell scripts to preview changes, since Deployment Manager is Google's strategic IaC direction.

Answer

Replace all IaC with manually documented gcloud commands stored in a runbook so operators can execute them consistently.

Answer

Use the Cloud Console's import feature to recreate resources manually and disable automated deployments to reduce configuration drift.