Golden Paths on GCP: Cutting Provisioning Time by 80% with Terraform
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The fastest way to slow a team down is to make them wait on infrastructure. When every new service means a four-hour manual walk through the GCP console, engineers batch their requests, context-switch while they wait, and quietly build snowflakes. This post is about replacing that ritual with a golden path — a paved, opinionated route that provisions a production-like environment in under 45 minutes, self-service.