How to Deploy a Windows Server with SQL Server VM Instance in GCP using Terraform

Guillermo Musumeci
9 min readFeb 28, 2022

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In this story, we will learn how to deploy a Windows Server with SQL Server VM Instance (VM) in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) using Terraform.

GCP Compute Engine provides images with Microsoft SQL Server preinstalled on Windows Server. In addition, Compute Engine manages the license for both Windows Server and SQL Server for

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Guillermo Musumeci

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