deployment-manager-guide.md

Generating Deployment Manager templates using the mpdev tool

You can use the mpdev tool to create a Deployment Manager template file, also known as a deployment package, for VM products. The mpdev tool autogenerates Deployment Manager templates from Autogen specification files.

To learn how to create a deployment package and submit the package to Google, see the Google Cloud Marketplace documentation for Creating your deployment package.

Overview

You use the following mpdev commands to generate a deployment package:

1. Use the mpdev pkg get command to retrieve a preconfigured Autogen specification.
2. Use mpdev cfg set to customize values in the retrieved Autogen specification, or edit the specification manually. If editing manually, we recommend setting up auto-complete by following these instructions
3. Use mpdev apply to generate the Deployment Manager template.

See also

To see examples that use mpdev, go to the preconfigured Autogen specifications for a single vm and multi vm.