Once you start setting up cloud infrastructure consisting of more than a single server and a database you will realize the importance of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions such as Terraform, Puppet, etc, among many others. Recently, within a project I work on, we have moved all our infra to Google and its cloud offering, which made me realize that Google has its own tool to manage infrastructure in elegant way called Deployment Manager, and in some cases it can be even better than the Terraform we have normally used. This post will not, in any way, try to persuade you to move from Terraform to Google Deployment Manager but the DM has some pros of which every cloud developer should know.
Read more here: https://blog.softwaremill.com/gcp-goodies-part-1-google-deployment-manager-basics-747ce637e61b