Case Study Application Design and Deploy: Terraform on Google Cloud

Here I run through a sample case study application, where our client – Acme Ltd – has asked for the open source Ghost blogging application to be deployed onto GCP. The content is made up of:

• The documentation site
• The GitHub repo

Here you’ll see examples across:

• Producing hosting options to meet the requirements.
• An overall high level design.
• Bootstrapping and project factory using Terraform.
• Autoscaling managed instances.
• Google Cloud Functions.
• A Google Cloud SQL highly available database.
• Use of Cloud Build to create a basic CI/CD pipeline.
• Implementation guidance.
• Billing and operations information.