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Submitted by ahmad_uae· Apr 18, 2026Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service

Question

You use Terraform to manage an application deployed to a Google Cloud environment. The application runs on instances deployed by a managed instance group. The Terraform code is deployed by using a CI/CD pipeline. When you change the machine type on the instance template used by the managed instance group, the pipeline fails at the terraform apply stage with the following error message: You need to update the instance template and minimize disruption to the application and the number of pipeline runs. What should you do?

Options

  • ADelete the managed instance group, and recreate it after updating the instance template.
  • BAdd a new instance template, update the managed instance group to use the new instance
  • CRemove the managed instance group from the Terraform state file, update the instance template,
  • DSet the create_before_destroy meta-argument to true in the lifecycle block on the instance

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#Terraform lifecycle#Google Cloud MIGs#CI/CD deployment#Immutable infrastructure updates
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