Cloud Deployment Manager reached end of support on March 31, 2026.
If you currently use Deployment Manager, please migrate to Infrastructure Manager or an alternative deployment technology.

For more information on the deprecation and shutdown, see Deployment Manager deprecation.

How-To Guides

Get started

Walkthrough: best practices

Get familiar with Deployment Manager's best practices, such as creating reusable templates for your Google Cloud environment.

Building configurations

Configurations overview

Learn about configurations.
Creating a basic configuration

Create a basic configuration file.
Previewing a configuration

Preview a configuration before you deploy it.

Adding Templates

Creating a basic template

Create your first template.
Defining template properties

Template properties are arbitrary variables that you can use in place of hard coding template values.
Using environment variables

Use predefined environment variables in your templates.
Creating template modules

Create and use template modules as helper files for your templates.
Importing Python libraries

If you are writing Python templates, you can import and use common Python libraries in your templates.
Adding templates as composite type

If you plan to use certain templates regularly, add those templates permanently to Deployment Manager as composite types.
Describing, listing, and deleting types

List, describe, and delete types that belong to your project.
Defining schemas for templates

Create a schema file to enforce how users interact with your templates.
Storing templates on an external host

Learn how to use templates hosted on Google Cloud Storage or hosted on third-party sites like GitHub.

Using References

Using references

When you define the properties for your configuration or template files, you can use references to other properties instead of directly providing property values.

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Walkthrough: best practices

Configurations overview

Creating a basic configuration

Previewing a configuration

Creating a basic template

Defining template properties

Using environment variables

Creating template modules

Importing Python libraries

Adding templates as composite type

Describing, listing, and deleting types

Defining schemas for templates

Storing templates on an external host

Using references

How-To Guides