⛅🌱 Cloud Seed

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  • Capabilities
    • Generate Google Cloud Service Accounts
    • Deploy to Google Cloud Run
    • Provision Google Cloud SQL databases
  • Usecases
  • Positive business outcomes (grouped by persona)
  • Jobs to be Done
  • Open source
  • Everyone can contribute
  • Links
  • Demos
    • Ridiculously simple deployments
    • Preview Environments
    • Databases Proof-of-Concept

⛅🌱 Cloud Seed

GitLab is the one devops platform. Teams use GitLab (SaaS or self-managed) for development, planning, collaboration and automation. However, digital transformation is incomplete without cloud adoption.

Thus, Cloud Seed — a collaboration with Google Cloud — makes it trivial to consume cloud services from GitLab.

Capabilities

Generate Google Cloud Service Accounts

• Service accounts are authentication credentials that can be generated from the GitLab web interface
• Used for a wide range of integrations and automation with Google Cloud services

Deploy to Google Cloud Run

• Cloud Run is a fully managed deployment platform for containerized applications
• Setup automated deployments to Cloud Run via the GitLab web interface including support for Preview Environments
• Every Git commit, branch and tag is automatically deployed to the appropriate Cloud Run service environment

Provision Google Cloud SQL databases

• Provision popular database instances easily from the GitLab web interface
• Support all major versions of PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQL Service
• Generate instances, databases and users to be used with deployment and test automations
• Environment (i.e. Git ref) aware database provisioning

Usecases

• Cloud native development with automated deployments to Cloud Run
• Cloud migration and app modernization with Cloud SQL relational databases

Positive business outcomes (grouped by persona)

List of user personas with specific benefits they actualize:

• Compliance Manager, Security Analyst, Security Operations Engineer
  • Secure, standardized deployment pipelines across the organization
  • GitLab-Google Cloud driven authorization and permission model
• Product Manager, Product Designer
  • Preview environments to validate feature branches
• Development Team Lead, Software Developer, Platform Engineer, Software Engineer in Test
  • Continuous deployment for all Git commits, branches and environments
  • Easy deployment automation and database provisioning
  • Preview environments to validate feature branches
• Systems Administrator, Infrastructure Operator
  • Secure, standardized deployment pipelines across the organization
  • Principled GitOps with application source and infrastructure state
• Application Ops, Release Manager
  • Standardized pipelines for release automation
  • Support for feature, test and production release environments
• Application Development Director
  • Increase Operational Efficiencies
  • Deliver Better Products Faster
  • Reduce Security and Compliance Risk

Jobs to be Done

• Deploy web applications
  • ☑️ Authentication and authorization
  • ☑️ Deployment credential generation
  • ☑️ Provisioning and enablement of cloud services
  • ☑️ Deployment pipelines
  • ☑️ Preview environments
• Provision cloud data stores
  • ☑️ Authentication and authorization
  • ☑️ Database instance generation
  • ☑️ Database and user setup
  • ⏳ Networking configuration

Open source

Cloud Seed is an open-source program led by GitLab Incubation Engineering.

Sign up for the invite-only Trusted Testers platform and try out Cloud Seed before anyone else.

Everyone can contribute

There are several ways one may contribute to Cloud Seed. These are listed below:

• Become a Cloud Seed Trusted Tester in GitLab and share feedback
• If you are familiar with Ruby on Rails and/or Vue.js, consider contributing to GitLab as a developer. Much of Cloud Seed is an internal module within the GitLab code base
• If your familiarity lies with GitLab pipelines, consider contributing to the Cloud Seed Library project
• If your expertize is in Google Cloud APIs and Google Cloud technologies, reach out to us, we need you!

Links

• Cloud Seed landing page
• @OpenCloudSeed on Twitter
• Cloud Seed documentation
• Sign up for the invite-only Trusted Testers platform
• Submit feedback

Demos

Ridiculously simple deployments

Preview Environments

Databases Proof-of-Concept