Modeling environments for Google Cloud Platform

To model a Google Cloud Platform environment, log in with a Google Cloud cloud project and specify the Google Cloud-specific information in a blueprint.

Before you begin

Connect the blueprint design server to a cloud system. See Connecting to clouds through the blueprint designer.
Make sure that your user account is authenticated to a cloud system. See Setting up access to clouds in the blueprint designer.
Connect the blueprint design server to the server. See Connecting the blueprint design server to the server.
Log in to the blueprint designer.
At the top of the page, select the cloud project and region to use.

Procedure

Create the blueprint. See Creating files with the blueprint designer.
Add resources from the palette to the blueprint, such as virtual images. The palette shows resources from the currently connected cloud and region, which is shown in the upper-right corner of the page. You can access Compute Engine resources from only a single project that are available to your current region. See Regions and Zones in the Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine documentation.
For more information on working with the blueprint designer, see Editing blueprint diagrams and Editing blueprint source code.
Add volumes to the images. You can add or create volumes in addition to the boot volume for an image's operating system. Only volumes that are not attached to other virtual machine are visible in the palette. You can also create a new storage volume for the image.
Add resources from the palette to the blueprint, such as virtual images. The palette shows resources from the currently connected cloud, which is shown in the upper-right corner of the page. For more information on working with the blueprint designer, see Editing blueprint diagrams and Editing blueprint source code.
Create a configuration file and externalize properties to the file. See Editing configuration files.

In the configuration file, ensure that the core OpenStack types are mapped to Google Cloud Platform types. The configuration file must have mapping similar to the following code:

resource_registry:
  OS::Nova::Server : IBM::Google::Server
  OS::Neutron::Port : IBM::Google::Port
  OS::Neutron::FloatingIP : IBM::Google::PublicIP
  OS::Neutron::FloatingIPAssociation : IBM::Google::PublicIPAssociation
  OS::Cinder::Volume : IBM::Google::Disk
  OS::Cinder::VolumeAttachment : IBM::Google::DiskAttachment

What to do next

Add the components of your application to the blueprint. See Deploying components with blueprints.

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