Table of Contents

1. Challenge

   Create a Service Account

   1. From Google Cloud console's main navigation, choose IAM & Admin > Service Accounts.
   2. Click Create service account.
   3. Give your service account a name.
   4. Click Create.
   5. In the roles dropdown, select Project > Owner.
   6. Click Continue and then Done.
2. Challenge

   Log in to the Host Instance and Ensure Terraform Is Installed

   1. From Google Cloud navigation, choose Compute Engine > VM instances.

   2. Click SSH next to terraform-instance.

   3. Use root privileges:

      sudo -i
      

   4. Change into the root directory:

      cd /
      

   5. Call Terraform:

      terraform
      

3. Challenge

   Create a Service Account Key within the Instance

   1. Allow the SDK to communicate with GCP:

      gcloud init --console-only
      

   2. Enter Y and Yat the prompt.

   3. Choose your Cloud Project.

   4. Select the Cloud Student account.

   5. Choose Y to configure a default Compute Region and Zone

   6. Choose "us-central1-c"

   7. Copy the code provided.

   8. Paste the code into the terminal.

   9. Create the service account key:

      gcloud iam service-accounts keys create /downloads/compute-instance.json --iam-account <SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL>
      

4. Challenge

   Create and Deploy the Configuration File

   1. Create a main.tf file:

      vim main.tf
      

   2. Paste the following configuration, replacing <PROJECT_NAME> with your project name (found in the top navigation bar of the Google Cloud console):

      provider "google" {
        version = "3.20.0"
        credentials = file("/downloads/compute-instance.json")
        project = "<PROJECT_NAME>"
        region  = "us-central1"
        zone    = "us-central1-c"
      }
      
      resource "google_compute_network" "vpc_network" {
        name = "terraform-network"
      }
      resource "google_compute_instance" "vm_instance" {
        name         = "terraform-instance2"
        machine_type = "f1-micro"
        zone         = "us-central1-c"
        boot_disk {
          initialize_params {
            image = "centos-cloud/centos-stream-9"
          }
        }
      
        network_interface {
          network = google_compute_network.vpc_network.name
          access_config {
          }
        }
      }
      

   3. Save and exit the file by pressing Escape followed by :wq.

   4. Finish up by running terraform init, terraform validate, terraform plan, and terraform apply.