Summary

Cloud Launcher and Cloud Deployment Manager are designed to make it easier to deploy resources in GCP. Cloud Launcher is where third-party vendors can offer deployable applications based on proprietary or open source software. When an application is deployed from Cloud Launcher, resources such as VMs, storage buckets, and persistent disks are created automatically without additional human intervention. Deployment Manager gives cloud engineers the ability to define configuration files that describe the resources they would like to deploy. Once defined, cloud engineers can use gcloud commands to deploy the resources and list their status. The Deployment Manager is especially useful in organizations where you want to easily deploy resources without requiring users of those resources to understand the details of how to configure GCP resources.