GCP Terraform Compute (Simple Web Server)

This configuration creates a minimal VPC + subnetwork, firewall rules for HTTP/SSH, and a single Compute Engine VM running nginx that serves a custom landing page.

Layout

• main.tf wires the network and compute modules.
• variables.tf / terraform.tfvars hold inputs (project/region/zone, network/compute settings, page text).
• outputs.tf exposes network links and the VM external IP.
• modules/network defines the VPC, subnet, and firewall rule.
• modules/compute defines the VM and nginx startup script.

Prerequisites

• Terraform >= 1.0
• Google Cloud project with billing enabled
• Application Default Credentials or other auth usable by the Google provider
• Existing GCS bucket for the remote backend (see versions.tf)

Usage

terraform init          # configure backend and providers
terraform plan          # review resources
terraform apply         # create the web server

After apply, visit the instance_external_ip output on port 80 to see the nginx page with your startup_page_text.