Automate infrastructure with Cloud Composer
5 min readJun 15, 2021
This trial describes a way to automate a cloud infrastructure using Cloud Composer. The example shows how to schedule automated backups of Compute Engine virtual machine (VM) instances.
Cloud Composer is a fully managed workflow orchestration service on Google Cloud. Cloud Composer allows you to create workflows using a Python API, schedule them for automatic execution or start them manually, and monitor task execution in real time via a graphical interface.