What?

You’re going to deploy your BOSH Director to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP is significantly cheaper than AWS given Broadcom’s contracts.

The gcloud CLI manages authentication, local configuration, developer workflow, and interactions with the Cloud Platform APIs. Download and install the Google SDK to get gcloud, as you’ll need it to bbl up.

This is another “fun-sized” story (you know you’ll miss them once you hit the 6-hour ones….)

How?

Follow these instructions to install Google Cloud SDK on your workstation.

Once you’ve done that, run gcloud init in your terminal.

You should have received an invitation to join a GCP project from your facilitator. Use your @vmware.com email address and the name of your assigned project to configure the tool (the project name is in the GCP dashboard menu bar and the URL).

Expected Result

Run gcloud version => “Google Cloud SDK 203.0.0 …” or higher

Run gcloud config list =>

[core]
account = your-email@vmware.com
disable_usage_reporting = False
project = PROJECT_ID

Your active configuration is: [default]

Resources

Docs: Comparison GCP <> AWS Internal Doc: The Great GCP Migration of 2016 Internal Doc: The Great GCP Migration of 2016