Image management pipeline

In this section, we will look at the process of creating an image management pipeline. The process involves a few procedures, and we will look at the high-level steps, including prerequisites that you need to meet before you build your image factory. Let’s now look at the steps:

1. Create a strategy for managing image lifecycles, such as golden image promotion, versioning, deprecation, and deletion.
2. Bake a golden image, and use an automated compliance check, such as Chef InSpec.
3. Ensure that an organization policy is in place to limit the compute images available to individuals working on specific projects.

You will also need to meet a couple of prerequisites:

• Ensure you have a Google Cloud account.
• You either need to have Project Editor access for an existing project, or you need organization permissions to be able to create a new project under the organization.

The process of creating an image is quite similar...