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Here’s a guide for creating a Google Cloud VM using Pulumi and a Medium post to help you share the experience. I’ll use TypeScript as an example for the Pulumi code.

Everton Araújo
4 min readSep 23, 2024

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Automating Google Cloud VM Creation with Pulumi: Step-by-Step Guide

Cloud infrastructure management has become much more efficient with tools like Pulumi, which allow you to define and manage infrastructure using code. Whether you’re working with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, Pulumi provides a unified and programmable approach to Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

In this post, I’ll guide you through the process of creating a Google Cloud Virtual Machine (VM) using Pulumi, helping you automate your cloud infrastructure with ease.

Why Pulumi?

Pulumi is a cloud-agnostic IaC tool that lets you write infrastructure code in familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Go, or C#. It integrates well with CI/CD pipelines and offers flexibility in cloud automation, making it a great choice for developers and DevOps teams.

Prerequisites

Before diving into the implementation, ensure you have the following prerequisites in place:

  1. Pulumi installed. You can install it…

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Everton Araújo
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