Design your Landing Zone — Design Considerations Part 1 (Google Cloud Adoption Series)

Yes, it’s another installment of my Google Cloud Adoption and Migration: From Strategy to Operation series.

In the previous part, I told you about best practices for establishing SRE in your organisation. This included how to set up SRE teams, how to upskill, and best practices for things like: toil reduction, and establishing SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and alerting policies.

In this part, I’m going to talk about something absolutely essential to your Google Cloud success: landing zones!!

This isn’t the first time I’ve written about landing zones. So let me start by telling you about a couple of my other articles that might be useful:

1. Landing Zones on Google Cloud: What It Is, Why You Need One, and How to Create One — In this article I describe what a landing zone is, how it is beneficial, and then I describe some ways you can go about building one.
2. Google Cloud Landing Zone with Terraform and Cloud Foundation Fabric FAST — In this article I provide a walkthrough of how to create a Google Cloud LZ using Google’s open source Fabric FAST: a Terraform-based solution to bootstrapping and building a GCP LZ, from scratch.

Landing Zone Overview

A high-level view of a simple LZ — from Google’s documentation