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I have a need to block a large list of ever changing IP addresses from servers and systems I operate.

Following on from my previous post: Packer: Building images on Google Cloud You should now be able to build compute images on GCP and you may have used this to build a pre-configured image you can effortlessly deploy again and again without having to wait to install software.

We can use IAM to control who has access to what within our project and who can do what to things like storage buckets, but what if we wanted to restrict when someone could do something or to what object in a bucket. That’s where IAM Conditions come in to play.

What’s Terraform? # Terraform is a tool created by Hashicorp which allows us to describe our infrastructure in easily readable code. This code can also be stored in our source code management system to allow us to track changes to our infrastructure over time.

Installing the software we need to run our website or tools, can take some time to complete. This isn’t ideal when our deployments are time sensitive, like when we need to scale up the web server pool to handle that sudden interest in your latest line of fancy socks.