JacobBHartman / terraform-gcp-simpleVPC

A simple VPC in GCP containing a reverse proxy entrypoint, a load balancer, and a scalable backend appserver group, as defined using Terraform.

terraform-gcp-simpleVPC

A very simple Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) defined using Terraform Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL).

The VPC has a single point-of-entry (POE), a reverse proxy server instance. The reverse proxy routes traffic to a load balancer which in-turn routes traffic to a managed instance group. The managed instance group acts as the appserver.

Project Objectives

Use Terraform to create the following in GCP: a VPC and a reverse proxy.

• The VPC architecture should resemble: Internet --> Nginx Reverse Proxy --> Load Balancer --> Managed Instance Group
• The reverse proxy should... ** the only resource within the VPC that is accessible to the internet ** have nginx installed and running ** be accessible on TCP ports 22, 80, and 443 ** redirect port 80 traffic to port 443 (i.e., no content should be served from port 80) ** have a viable SSL certificate ** serve custom content other than the nginx default

Additionally...

• use a configuration manager to configure the nginx reverse proxy
• resist using Terraform to manage deployments
• Use the GCP equivalent of AWS Code* to configure a CI/CD pipeline