Terraform gcp vm Nginx with logs on gcs

Create an Nginx with http and https(self signed) enabled in default page

All logs of nginx will be stored in an created google cloud storage

It will healthcheck in the end with check.tf

Requirements

• gcp account with follow permissions
  • editor and ilm update or proprietary
• gcp project
• terraform (supports tfenv)
• bash (used by local-exec tests)

Apis needed to be enabled in GCP

If your account haven't enabled some services you will get an error with the link to follow and enable it.

• compute engine (https://cloud.google.com/compute)
• iam policy (https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/iam.googleapis.com/overview)

Credentials

https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials/serviceaccountkey

Create an service account key, it could be Project -> Owner to terraform use without problems

Create and download key as json file associated to the created account key

Use the path in terraform.tfvars file

Vars

Start from example with cp terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars

Project

Project id used by automation

Credentials File

Path of gcp credentials json file used by terraform

SSH Pub Key File

Path of your public ssh key file to add access to vm

Run

After setup terraform.tfvars, you can run it with

terraform apply

In the end of creation it will test nginx response in check.tf

SSH

Access the machine by ssh with

ssh main@$pub_ip