LABBEGINNER

Your First Terraform Workflow on GCP

Learn the complete Terraform workflow on GCP, from verifying your environment to safely destroying infrastructure.

60 minutes
infrastructure/terraform
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Lab Overview

Master the foundational Terraform workflow by deploying your first infrastructure on Google Cloud. This lab guides you through every stage of the Terraform lifecycle, from preparing your environment and writing configuration to reviewing state and cleaning up resources.

You'll learn to:

  • Verify Terraform and GCP access in the lab environment
  • Write your first Terraform configuration with the Google provider
  • Initialize a working directory and validate configuration syntax
  • Plan and apply infrastructure changes for a GCS bucket
  • Inspect Terraform state and outputs
  • Destroy infrastructure safely when you're done

Key Resources:

What You'll Learn

Verify Terraform installation and GCP project access in the lab environment

Write a first Terraform configuration using the Google provider and a GCS bucket resource

Initialize a Terraform working directory and review the provider lock file

Validate, plan, and apply infrastructure changes on GCP

Inspect Terraform state and safely destroy infrastructure

Prerequisites

Basic command line familiarity

Google Cloud fundamentals

Technologies Covered

terraforminfrastructure-as-codegcpterraform-workflowterraform-cli

Part of a Course

This lab is part of the Terraform 004: Certified Terraform Associate course

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