README.md

Terraform folder structure to create a Google Cloud project

├── _modules
│   ├── network
│   │   ├── dev
│   │   │   └── main.tf
│   │   ├── nonprod
│   │   │   └── main.tf
│   │   └── prod
│   │       └── main.tf
│   └── services
│       ├── dev
│       │   └── main.tf
│       ├── nonprod
│       │   └── main.tf
│       └── prod
│           └── main.tf
├── dev
│   ├── main.tf
│   └── vars.tf
├── nonprod
│   ├── main.tf
│   └── vars.tf
├── prod
    ├── main.tf
    └── vars.tf

Features:

This is a simple main.tf that has separated modules for activating APIs and subnetworks for a new project. This terraform skeleton also shows how to benifit from breaking down sections into modules plus uses examples on how to execute simple logic like count.index and for_each to keep the terraform code minimal. The goal of this is to create multi environment deployment from a single repo.

1. The network module uses a for_each loop

resource "google_compute_subnetwork" "default" {
  for_each = local.subnet_data
  project = "${var.project}"
  name = "${var.name}"
  ip_cidr_range = each.value
  region = each.key
  network = "${google_compute_network.default.self_link}"
}

2. The services module activates a count.index parameter

resource "google_project_service" "project_services" {
  project = "${var.project}"
  count = "${length(local.api_list)}"
  service = "${element(local.api_list, count.index)}"
}

Objectives:

Generally speaking as each environment goes up (dev -> nonprod -> prod) security for a project becomes more strict. To achieve this change the environments main.tf modules source to point at the corresponding module environments folder. _modules/services/dev/main.tf into _modules/services/nonprod/main.tf
then reduce the amout of API's that are enabled or remove subnets upon project creation.

Inside the modules folder /_modules/services/nonprod/main.tf alter the list of APIs that get enabled. The same goes for /_modules/services/prod/main.tf file.

In each environment the only part that changes per environment main.tf is the source part of the module.

./dev/main.tf

module "api_services" {
  source  = "../_modules/services/dev/"
  project = "${data.google_project_services.project.project}"
}

./nonprod/main.tf

module "api_services" {
  source  = "../_modules/services/nonprod/"
  project = "${data.google_project_services.project.project}"
}

Execution:

The commands are the same but to deploy a specific environment the terraform plan and terraform apply must contain the folder.
For example:
To deploy a dev environment - (from the root directory)

terraform init /dev
terraform plan /dev
terraform apply /dev

To deploy a nonprod environment - (from the root directory)

terraform init /nonprod
terraform plan /nonprod
terraform apply /nonprod