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Accessing Terraform Remote State Data in GCP
You are a DevOps engineer working at an organization that is trying to move all its configuration management to Infrastructure as Code (IaC). There is some concern about this plan, since many teams work independently. You will meet with the networking team to set up an initial VPC using Terraform with a remote state backend that other teams can access. Next, you will meet with one of the application teams to configure Terraform to deploy their VMs into the VPC that the networking team has created and will manage. Once this is set up, the networking team can manage the VPC as they need to and the latest information will be available for the application teams via the Terraform remote state backend.

Lab Info
Table of Contents
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Challenge
Create a Network Using Terraform with a Remote State GCS Backend
- Create a bucket with a globally unique name to store state files in.
- Create a
terraform
directory in Cloud Shell to work in. - Create a
network
directory containing amain.tf
file. - Create a
terraform
code block defining providers and setting up remote state to target the bucket. - Create a
google_compute_network
resource. - Create a
google_compute_subnetwork
resource. - Create an
output
block defining the subnet's name. - Execute
terraform init
. - Execute
terraform apply
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Challenge
Create a VM Deployed into the Network from Objective 1 Using the Remote State Data
- From your top-level
terraform
directory, create avm
directory containing amain.tf
file. - Create a
terraform
code block defining providers and setting up remote state to target the bucket. - Create a
terraform_remote_state
data object targeting the remote state of the VPC. - Create a
google_compute_instance
resource and set thenetwork_interface.subnetwork
value to the output from Objective 1. - Execute
terraform init
. - Execute
terraform apply
.
- From your top-level
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