Infrastructure as Code for GCP

Implementing comprehensive Infrastructure as Code practices to enable automated, repeatable, and auditable cloud infrastructure deployments.

Infrastructure as Code for GCP

The Challenge

A fast-growing SaaS company had been manually provisioning GCP resources, leading to significant operational challenges:

  • Configuration drift between environments causing production issues
  • No audit trail for infrastructure changes
  • Slow deployment times (days to provision new environments)
  • Difficulty replicating environments for testing
  • High operational overhead for the DevOps team

Our Approach

CloudBrainy implemented a comprehensive IaC strategy using Terraform and GitOps best practices:

  • Terraform module library for common GCP patterns
  • Git-based workflow with pull request reviews
  • Automated validation with Terraform validate and tflint
  • CI/CD pipeline integration with Cloud Build
  • Remote state management with Cloud Storage
  • Secret management with Secret Manager integration

Key Deliverables

Terraform Modules

50+ reusable modules for GCP resources

GitOps Pipeline

Automated plan/apply workflow with approvals

Documentation

Auto-generated module docs with terraform-docs

Team Training

IaC best practices workshop for engineering team

Results & Impact

95%
Infrastructure as Code Coverage
10x
Faster Environment Provisioning
Zero
Configuration Drift Issues
100%
Change Audit Trail

Technologies Used

Terraform Cloud Build Cloud Source Repositories Secret Manager Terraform Cloud tflint