Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Question 196
Select 3Google Cloud PlatformYou are managing multiple environments (staging and production) for your application hosted on Google Cloud. You are tasked with ensuring safe and consistent deployments across these environments while minimizing errors. Which of the following approaches should you implement?
- A
Use infrastructure as code (IaC) tools to maintain consistent environment configurations.
- B
Manually configure each environment to account for unique needs during deployment.
- C
Implement a canary deployment strategy to test changes in the staging environment before rolling out to production.
- D
Enforce environment-specific naming conventions for resources to ensure better management.
- E
Use separate Google Cloud projects for staging and production environments.
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Correct answers: A, C, E
Explanation
To effectively manage multiple environments, it is critical to use practices and tools that promote consistency, minimize errors, and isolate environments. Infrastructure as code ensures consistency across environments, while canary deployments and separate Google Cloud projects help maintain stability and security during deployments. Manual configuration should be avoided as it increases the risk of human error.
- A. Correct.
Using infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform or Deployment Manager, ensures that environment configurations are consistent, version-controlled, and repeatable, reducing manual errors.
- B. Incorrect.
Manually configuring environments increases the risk of errors and inconsistency, which goes against DevOps best practices.
- C. Correct.
Canary deployment allows you to test changes in a controlled manner, minimizing the risk of introducing issues into production while ensuring staging is adequately validated.
- D. Incorrect.
While naming conventions are helpful for resource organization, they do not directly address ensuring safe and consistent deployments across environments.
- E. Correct.
Using separate Google Cloud projects for staging and production provides isolation, better security, and clearer cost tracking, which are critical for managing multiple environments effectively.