Google Cloud Solutions Template

A template to generate a new project with built-in structure and features to accelerate your project setup.

TL;DR

Solutions Template is a boilerplate template for building repeatable solutions with the best practices in architecture on Google Cloud, including GKE clusters, Test Automation, CI/CD, as well as development process.

This template provides built-in and ready-to-ship sample features including:

• Kubernetes-based microservices
• Simplified deployment using Skaffold and Kustomize
• Terraform Google Cloud foundation setup
• CI/CD deployment (with Github Actions)
• CloudRun templates
• [In Progress] CI/CD deployment with CloudBuild

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Install Cookiecutter (Github):

• For MacOS:

  brew install cookiecutter
  

• For Windows, refer this installation guide

Install other required dependencies:

• For MacOS:

  brew install --cask skaffold kustomize google-cloud-sdk
  

• For Windows:

  choco install -y skaffold kustomize gcloudsdk
  

Project Requirements

Tool	Current Version
Skaffold	v1.39.2
GKE	v1.22
Kustomize	v4.3.1

Create a new project with Cookiecutter

Run the following to generate skeleton code in a new folder:

cookiecutter [email protected]:GoogleCloudPlatform/solutions-template.git

Provide the required variables to Cookiecutter prompt, e.g.:

project_id: my-project-id
project_name [My Awesome Project]:
project_short_description [My Awesome Project]:
project_slug [my_project]:
Google Cloud_region [us-central1]:
version [0.1.0]:
admin_email [[email protected]]:

• You may leave variables as blank if you'd like to use the default value (except projdct_id).
• Notes: If you run into any issues with cookiecutter, please add --verbose at the end of the command to show detailed errors.

Once cookiecutter completes, you will see the folder <project_id> created in the path where you ran cookiecutter command.

Inside the newly created folder

You will see the file structure like below:

<project_id>/
│   README.md
│   skaffold.yaml
│
└───microservices/
│   └───sample_service/
│       └───kustomize/
│       └───src/
│       │   Dockerfile
│       │   requirements.txt
│       │   skaffold.yaml
│       │   ...
│
└───common/
│   └───src/
│   │   Dockerfile
│   │   requirements.txt
│   │   skaffold.yaml
│   │   ...
│
└───.github/

File structure details

• README.md - This contains all details regarding the development and deployment.
• skaffold.yaml - This is the master Skaffold YAML file that defines how everything is built and deployed, depending on different profiles.
• microservices - The main directory for all microservices, can be broken down into individual folder for each microservie, e.g. sample_service.
  • [microservice subfolder] - Each microservice folder is a Docker container with Skaffold + Kustomize to build images in different environments.
• common - The common image contains shared data models and util libraries used by all other microservices.

Built-in Features

In a nutshell, Solutions Template offers the following built-in features with working sample code:

• A sample microservice with CRUD API endpoints on Kubernetes (GKE).
• A built-in Ingress supporting custom DNS domain.
• Test Automation and CI/CD with Github Action.
• CloudRun Services

We are also working on the following features:

• Test Automation and Ci/CD with CloudBuild

Roadmap

TBD

FAQ

TBD