Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Multiple configurations

Oftentimes, development and operations work in GCP will involve frequently switching between Google Cloud projects, user accounts, and service accounts. Many times these jumps between workflows will also involve working with different regions and zones, deployment strategies, and so on. For example, when deploying an App Engine application to a lower life cycle, it may be ideal to automatically promote the service to receive all traffic. This is probably not the desired behavior for higher life cycles where procedures like smoke testing need to take place. A user could go about updating every related configuration property to better suit the new context. But that would be tedious and error-prone.

For these kinds of ...