Deployment Manager And Monitoring In Google Cloud Platform

In this article, we will learn how to use the Deployment Manager to deploy a VM Instance as well as monitor it in the Google Cloud Platform. If you are new to this series about Google Cloud Platform, I recommend you to go through the below articles of this series,

Let’s begin.

Step 1

Log in to the Google Cloud Platform by visiting https://console.cloud.google.com/ (Google provides $300 as a free trial, but for that, you need to link your credit card).

Deployment Manager And Monitoring In Google Cloud Platform

Once logged in, you will be redirected to the dashboard of the Google Cloud Platform.

Step 2

Go to APIs & Services, and Cccick on dashboard

Make sure you Cloud Deployment Manager V2 API, Cloud Runtime Configuration, and Stack Driver Monitoring API are running (If you want to monitor, troubleshoot & improve application performance on your Google Cloud).

Step 3

Click on the Google Cloud Shell icon and create a .yaml file (named It as mydeploy.yaml). You can use nano editor in order to do this. (Please refer here in order to understand the basic configuration required to create .yaml deployment configuration)

.yaml file contains the configuration for the VM Instance like VM Name, Type, Zone, Machine Type, etc. as shown in the below image.

Once everything is configured, mydeploy.yaml will look like as shown below:

Step 4

Run the below command in the Google cloud shell as mentioned below,

gcloud deployment-manager deployments create my-first-depl –config mydeploy.yaml

--config flag is the relative path to your YAML configuration file. Once the above command has executed successfully, a list with the resource name mentioned in the yaml file and its state will be shown to the user. We can also check the VM Instances in the Compute Engine menu as shown in the below image.