Terraform Expressions and Meta-Arguments on GCP

Deploy a baseline VPC, subnet, firewall, and VM that later Terraform expression tasks build on

Use string interpolation, templatefile(), and collection functions to generate startup scripts and structured values

Apply conditional expressions, count, splat expressions, for expressions, and for_each to GCP resources

Generate nested firewall rules with dynamic blocks and protect resources with lifecycle meta-arguments

Scale a managed instance group and use provider::google::region_from_zone() in the Terraform console