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A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment. You want to advocate for the adoption of

The correct answer is C. Cloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers. F. Cloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources.. C - Is a business risk because the lead engineer / engineers will need to learn a new tool. F - If the company decide to move infra to Azure, AWS or VMware for example, they can't use Cloud Deployment Manager templates, where Terraform would work across different platforms (bette

Submitted by luis.pe· Mar 30, 2026Optimizing technical and business processes

Question

A lead engineer wrote a custom tool that deploys virtual machines in the legacy data center. He wants to migrate the custom tool to the new cloud environment. You want to advocate for the adoption of Google Cloud Deployment Manager. What are two business risks of migrating to Cloud Deployment Manager? Choose 2 answers

Options

  • ACloud Deployment Manager uses Python.
  • BCloud Deployment Manager APIs could be deprecated in the future.
  • CCloud Deployment Manager is unfamiliar to the company's engineers.
  • DCloud Deployment Manager requires a Google APIs service account to run.
  • ECloud Deployment Manager can be used to permanently delete cloud resources.
  • FCloud Deployment Manager only supports automation of Google Cloud resources.

How the community answered

(52 responses)
  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    10% (5)
  • C
    67% (35)
  • D
    4% (2)
  • E
    17% (9)

Explanation

C - Is a business risk because the lead engineer / engineers will need to learn a new tool. F - If the company decide to move infra to Azure, AWS or VMware for example, they can't use Cloud Deployment Manager templates, where Terraform would work across different platforms (better business case). https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/deployments/deleting-deployments

Topics

#Cloud Deployment Manager#infrastructure as code#vendor lock-in#change management

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