How-To Guides

Walkthrough: best practices

Get familiar with Deployment Manager's best practices, such as creating reusable templates for your Google Cloud environment.

Configurations overview

Learn about configurations.

Creating a basic configuration

Create a basic configuration file.

Previewing a configuration

Preview a configuration before you deploy it.

Creating a basic template

Create your first template.

Defining template properties

Template properties are arbitrary variables that you can use in place of hard coding template values.

Using environment variables

Use predefined environment variables in your templates.

Creating template modules

Create and use template modules as helper files for your templates.

Importing Python libraries

If you are writing Python templates, you can import and use common Python libraries in your templates.

Adding templates as composite type

If you plan to use certain templates regularly, add those templates permanently to Deployment Manager as composite types.

Describing, listing, and deleting types

List, describe, and delete types that belong to your project.

Defining schemas for templates

Create a schema file to enforce how users interact with your templates.

Storing templates on an external host

Learn how to use templates hosted on Google Cloud Storage or hosted on third-party sites like GitHub.

Using references

When you define the properties for your configuration or template files, you can use references to other properties instead of directly providing property values.

Exposing information from deployments

You can use the outputs section in your template or configuration to define a list of key/value pairs that users can call.

Creating explicit dependencies

Setting a dependsOn property tells Deployment Manager to always create specific resources before others. This is useful if you need certain parts of your deployment to exist before other parts can come online.

Creating a deployment