Easily Deploy a Minecraft Server onto GCP using Terraform & Docker

Traditionally, bringing up a Minecraft server involves manually installing all separate components and spending too much time in the command line. Using the Terraform recipe from this blog post we can easily bring up our own server without worrying about the granularities of manual deployment.

Why we use Terraform and not Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Pulumi, or CloudFormation, by Yevgeniy Brikman

Globally autoscaling a web service on Compute Engine, Compute Engine Documentation

Comparing GCP Deployment Manager and Terraform

Easily Deploy a Minecraft Server onto GCP using Terraform & Docker

Exporting data from/to Google Cloud Platform, by Julien Hernandez Lallement

Host a Minecraft server on Google Cloud with automatic deployment and backup, by MPL

Deploying Infrastructure From Minecraft, by Lorenzo Coacci

5 Minutes to Run Your First Docker Container on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform – Collabnix

Deploying a Minecraft Docker Server to the cloud