Google Cloud Deployment Manager Reviews & Product Details

Google Cloud Deployment Manager makes it so simple to deploy a server instance. While previously we had to pay set-up fees to server providers for the same task, now it can be done via a user-friendly click-to-deploy admin panel. SSH can be accessed easily, and instances can be stopped and deleted within clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Customer support response time should be improved for a better experience, as the user has to rely primarily on the knowledge base, which can be a lengthy process if the issue is yet to be identified. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google cloud offers so many services but the cloud functions are the best. I'm so amazed by it's features, it helps you deploy your logic without having to worry about backend setup. I used it in one of my project where I had implemented small logic and wanted to run it continuosly and generate logs. It was very easy to configure and deploy it using GCP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is nothing to dislike about it so far, I've liked the documents, pricing model everything seems good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of acces and compatybility with most of the other services that I'm using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The service is good but requires a little bit of development work to match the other big ones on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That it has all the tools (Big Query, Vertex AI, Kubernetes) that work well for me and my line of work Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The documentation and the fact that there are so many services that sometimes I do not even know what I can use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Consistent and easy to use control structures. Creating multiple copies of a resource with complicated conditions is a breeze when using DM's jinja templates and probably even easier in python (compare it to terraform's "use count for condition" hack or 3 different for-loop syntaxes).

I also love the visualisation of resources and sub-templates in GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nobody uses it! In other words - Google teams actively advocate against Google's own product in favor of terraform. The consequence is a lack of development in DM and the general vibe of "we would kill that product if we didn't base Marketplace on it". Many advanced new features are not available or not officially supported (try adding an instance to an unmanaged group). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A flexible infrastructure-as-code solution for Google Cloud: like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

Supports most of the popular Google Cloud Platform services and resource types (VMs, Cloud SQL, Storage buckets, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions etc.)

Simple declarative syntax that claims to support all forms of underlying APIs (as supported by the particular cloud service)

Ability to externalize variable or sensitive parameters as template inputs

Ability to extract outputs from the template for dealing with generated/updated resources

Custom resource support, and fully customized template processing via inline Python and Jinja2 snippets

Accessible via the CORS-friendly REST API and gcloud CLI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no rollback mechanism! An absolute necessity for such a resource management utility; but there is no mention of rollback in the API or docs.

Lack of proper documentation on end-to-end usage of the API; even for the usual flow (preview, submit, monitor)

Deployment Manager internally converts the template to API calls, hence there is no way to find if a particular operation is supported until it gets invoked at runtime (e.g. unlike CloudFormation which has extensive documentation on supported operations and modes for each resource type)

There are cases where a deployment can end up in an inconsistent state, especially if the previous one has failed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The template present inside the software are just amazing as it allows us the same configuration and setting before deployment to the Production environment. Because of this regression testing of before the Prod upgrade becomes quite easy and bug leaks can easily be handled and be rolled back. And the simultaneous functionality of the software makes it quite amazing and ease the working of the deployment. In the end its very well designed and the requirements are quite greatly handled. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The things where it lacks are

- Simultaneous updates i.e. we can't update our applications simultaneous but we can deploy them which is one of the biggest drawback

-It needs some in depth understanding before using it as you need to be software friendly not a tech freak or you'll end up googling everything. Manuals are to be read carefully

-Poor Customer Services. The response is late and most of the times they give wrong answer or are not able to understand the questions.

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I love that you're able to access this anywhere thanks to Google Cloud and deploy and go live in a matter of minutes. It's very user friendly and tech friendly too! There's a weird learning curve from other deployment managers, because it's so simplistic yet incredibly variable too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like that some things are labeled to be more user friendly than tech friendly. it confuses my inner tech and I find myself referring to Google help forums for basic navigation needs. Otherwise, it's amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Google Cloud Deployment Manager is great in terms of pricing as compared to other provider within the same industry. I love their free trial offer of $300 or 1 year to fully test all the features and get accustomed to the platform. They have a professional customer support. Last, but not least, it's so easy to deploy any type of Cloud instances in a just a few clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would really appreciate if phone support was available at all levels like other hosting companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.