Context: I wanted to create an end to end IoT data pipeline simulation in Google Cloud IoT Core and other GCP services. I never touched Terraform meaningfully until working on this project, and it's one of the best explorations in my development career. The documentation and syntax is incredibly human-readable and friendly. I'm used to building infrastructure through the google apis via Python , but I'm so glad past Sung did not make that decision. I was tempted to use Google Cloud Deployment Manager, but the templates were a bit convoluted by first impression. I'm glad past Sung did not make this decision either.

Solution: Leveraging Google Cloud Build Google Cloud Run Google Cloud Bigtable Google BigQuery Google Cloud Storage Google Compute Engine along with some other fun tools, I can deploy over 40 GCP resources using Terraform!

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GitHub - sungchun12/iot-python-webapp: Live, real-time dashboard in a serverless docker web app, and deployed via terraform with a built-in CICD trigger-See Mock Website (github.com)
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Franco Austin
Franco Austin
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November 22nd 2019 at 10:54AM

Relly like the architectural artefact, what did you use to produce it?

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Sung Won Chung
Sung Won Chung
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November 24th 2019 at 9:57PM

I used draw.io. Free and easy to use!

https://www.draw.io/

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SANJEEV TOORA (UK)
SANJEEV TOORA (UK)
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January 29th 2020 at 8:55AM

Architecture looks great! Just out of curiosity, did you have unit and integration testing components for Terraform e.g. Terratest, Kitchen Terraform, Sentinel?

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Sung Won Chung
Sung Won Chung
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January 29th 2020 at 3:17PM

I did NOT. This was to demo the mechanics. Not something for robust production. Would love if you can make a pull request for some of those tests ;)

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