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GCP Landing Zone Setup Automation

via Dev.to DevOpsBoris Teplitsky

The Problem Every GCP engagement starts the same way. Discovery call, spreadsheet of requirements, weeks of manual Terraform, IAM wiring, VPC design, org policies, budget alerts. Then a review cycle to catch what was missed. Then another. For a process that happens at the start of every cloud project, it's remarkably unautomated. What a Landing Zone Actually Requires A production-ready GCP landing zone typically includes: Organization hierarchy and folder structure VPC and shared networking IAM roles and service accounts Org policies and constraints Budget alerts and billing controls Security baselines FAST-compatible configuration Getting all of this right manually takes 2-3 weeks minimum. A New Approach: Merlin Merlin is a GCP landing zone generator. Answer an architecture questionnaire — org structure, environments, compliance, networking — and it outputs a complete production-ready landing zone. What comes out: FAST-compatible Terraform files Architecture and security scorecards Me

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