Learn how to use PowerShell scripts to automate the deployment of VM resources in DevOps.

Google Compute Engine (GCE)  is without a doubt one of the greatest and most extensively used public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms for building customisable virtual machines. GCE enables software developers to create and execute virtual machine instances on Google's actual hardware (infrastructure) for application development, testing, and deployment.

You must have successfully googled for a lot of resources and information on how to establish a VM instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). But it's all a labor - intensive and time-consuming task! Why invest time and effort on manual activities when you can just DevOps instead?

The inclusion of technology that executes tasks with far less human help to processes that promote feedback loops between operations and development teams so that continuous updates can be released to production apps faster is known as DevOps automation.

Every cloud workload and function may be automated using DevOps and automation, saving your firm many business hours, hundreds of dollars, and IT administration resources and efforts. There is no cloud management task that DevOps cannot automate, especially when you collaborate with us.

So, here's a step-by-step approach with PowerShell scripts for automating the creation of compute engine VM instances on the Google Cloud (gCloud) Platform:

 

Step 1: Install Google Cloud Module

Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -MinimumVersion 2.8.5.201 -Force

Install-Module GoogleCloud -Force

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Step 2: Install Python

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol =

[Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

Invoke-WebRequest -Uri “https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.0/python-

3.7.0.exe” -OutFile “appdata/python-3.7.0.exe”

appdata/python-3.7.0.exe /quiet InstallAllUsers=0 PrependPath=1 Include_test=0

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Step 3: Install SDK

$env:GCLOUD_SDK_INSTALLATION_NO_PROMPT = $true

Import-Module GoogleCloud -Force

$env:Path += “;AppData\Local\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin”

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Step 4: Login Credentials

gcloud auth activate-service-account –key-

file=C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\migration-dev-260106-97804e2bbc01.json

gcloud auth login #web browser

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Step 5: API Enable Compute Instance for Project

gcloud projects list

gcloud config set project ps-vm-create

gcloud services list –available

gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com

gcloud info

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Step 6: Compute Instance Create

gcloud compute images list –project windows-cloud –no-standard-images

$disk = Get-GceImage “windows-cloud” -Family “windows-2012-r2”

$config = New-GceInstanceConfig tabexp `

-MachineType n1-standard-1 `

-DiskImage $disk

$config | Add-GceInstance -Project ps-vm-creategcloud compute reset-windows-password tabexp –quiet

And our automation is complete! How easy was that?

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