Deploy on GCP

Using Terraform

Introduction

Google Cloud Platform is one of the world's three most popular cloud providers. It offers a high-performance infrastructure for cloud computing, data analytics & machine learning. Secure, reliable, and high-performance cloud services.

At the moment, memphis utilizing Terraform to automate the entire deployment process from VPC creation, to K8S, to memphis deployment.

Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files.

Prerequisites

• A GCP Account

• A GCP Project + GCP Service Account Key

• gcloud SDK + CLI installed, configuration depends on station OS.

• Authorize the SDK to access GCP using your user account credentials

gcloud auth application-default login

• Enable API services:

gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID

gcloud services enable compute.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com

• Adjust the "N2_CPUS" quota according to your region. (Default is 8, increase to at least 12)

• Terraform is installed

• Kubectl is installed

• helm is installed

Terraform Installation Flow

Step 0: Clone Memphis-Terraform repo

git clone [e-mail]:memphisdev/memphis-terraform.git && \
cd memphis-terraform/GCP/GKE

Step 1: Deploy GKE Cluster using Terraform

In this step, you will need your projectID.

make infra

Memphis uses "makefile" instead of running three terraform commands

Step 2: Deploy Memphis

make cluster

Once deployment is complete, the Memphis Load Balancer URL will be revealed.

Step 3: Login to Memphis

Display memphis load balancer public IP by running the following -

kubectl get svc -n memphis

The UI will be available through https://<Public IP>:9000

Appendix A: Clean (Remove) Memphis Terraform deployment

Destroy Memphis App -

make destroymemphis

It might take a few minutes for the ALB to be deleted.

Destroy Memphis GKE Cluster -

make destroyinfra