Creating a Virtual Private Cloud

Creating an GCP VPC

Creating A VPC with Terraform is fairly straight forward. A minimal functional example configuration is just:

resource "google_compute_network" "vpc_network" {
  name = "lovelyhorse"
}

Clone the terraform scaffold into gcp_vpc.

$ scaffold gcp_vpc --provider GCP
...

Add this file google_compute_network.vpc_network.tf to the a scaffold in gcp_vpc. This is example only requires a name.

Open your shell at ./gcp_vpc and check the configuration with:

terraform init
terraform apply

If your plan looks like above then you can proceed by approving.

Now you have a VPC, and not much else.

Open up the GCP console GCP VPC

Network

Scroll down and you'll find your new VPC.

Select your new VPC and edit.

We can clean up by destroying created VPC:

terraform destroy

Now everything that's been created has been removed.

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