How-To Guides

Get started

• Walkthrough: best practices

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

Building configurations

• Configurations overview

  Learn about configurations.

• Creating a basic configuration

  Create a basic configuration file.

• Previewing a configuration

  Preview a configuration before you deploy it.

Adding Templates

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 Deployments

• Creating a deployment

  Learn how to deploy a configuration.

• Create deployments with Cloud Marketplace

  Use the Click-to-Deploy tool to launch predefined solutions on Google Cloud Deployment Manager.

• Updating a deployment

  Learn how to update an existing deployment.

• Deleting a deployment

  Learn how to delete a deployment.

Sharing resources across projects

• Using images from other projects

• Sharing types across projects

Storing and retrieving data at runtime

• Creating and deleting RuntimeConfig resources

  Learn how to create and delete RuntimeConfig resources.

• Setting and getting data

  Learn how to set and get variables using the Runtime Configurator.

• Deleting a variable

  Delete a variable.

• Watching a variable for changes

  Learn how to watch a variable for changes.

• Creating a waiter

  Create a waiter to wait for a variable to a certain end condition.