Terraform to create GCP dev box

This repo has an terraform example to create a dev server.

Creating the server

• clone this repo

• install gcloud and terraform

• setup gcloud if you have not

• gcloud auth application-default login

• ./generate-tfvars.sh

• terraform plan

• terraform apply

• login to you server

gcloud beta compute ssh --zone "us-central1-a" "my-gcp-dev-box" --tunnel-through-iap --project "$(gcloud config get-value project)"

Updating a group to use docker

• login to the server

• sudo gpasswd -a $USER docker

• `logout and log back in

• docker ps

Destroying your VM

• terraform destroy

What is installed

We are installing a bunch of binaries on the server

• apt-transport-https

• git

• zsh

• docker (latest from docker)

• go (latest version from longsleep/golang-backports)