Preparing for this chapter

In this chapter, we'll be using a number of Google Cloud tools to automate service deployments. In order to follow along, you'll need a free GitHub account. If you haven't already created a GitHub account, navigate to https://github.com/join and create a new personal account. Next, fork this book's source repository on GitHub by navigating to https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/BuildingGoogleCloudPlatformSolutions and clicking Fork.

Additionally, this chapter assumes that a default HTTP firewall already exists within your project. This firewall rule will already be configured if you previously created a Compute Engine instance in the Cloud Console with the Allow HTTP Traffic option, or followed along in Chapter 7, Google Compute Engine. If not, you can create the firewall rule now by executing the script available in this book's source repository under chapter_07/example_01/00-create-http-firewall-rule.sh.