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From Scratch: DevOps Deployment
With our OIDC provider configured, we can start setting up our DevOps build process. This will ensure that everyone on the team follows the same process when deploying infrastructure for anything built into our account.
From Scratch: OIDC Providers
It's time to divert our attention to what will soon become our infrastructure deployment process. This will feel a lot like application deployments, but there will be some stark differences we'll be going over. Our applications will incorporate infrastructure in the future, but not everything we do with our IaC will be related to an application.
From Scratch: Permissions
Once we have our groups and users set up from our external identity provider we can move on to defining what permissions they should have. This is mostly straightforward, but we'll have to take a few detours along the way because of how groups work with the Google Workspace IDP.
From Scratch: IaC
It occurred to me recently that it might not be obvious when someone should start using IaC. This can be daunting because there are things you can't do, and some things you shouldn't do with IaC. There are also situations where you could use it, but it doesn't lead to any benefit.