The Google Cloud Static Website template creates an infrastructure as code project in your favorite language that deploys an HTML website to Google Cloud Platform with Pulumi. It uses a [Cloud Storage bucket](/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/storage/bucket/) for file storage, configures the storage account to host a website, and provisions a [Global Address](/registry/packages/gcp/api-docs/compute/globaladdress/) to route traffic to the CDN for lower latency and caching. The template generates a complete Pulumi program, including placeholder web content, to give you a working project out of the box that you can customize easily and extend to suit your needs.
To use this template to deploy a website of your own, make sure you've [installed Pulumi](/docs/install/) and [configured your Google Cloud credentials](/registry/packages/gcp/installation-configuration#credentials), then create a new [project](/docs/concepts/projects/) using the template in your language of choice:
Follow the prompts to complete the new-project wizard. When it's done, you'll have a finished project that's ready to deploy and configured with the most common settings. Feel free to inspect the code in {{<langfile>}} for a closer look.
The template requires no additional configuration. Once the new project is created, you can deploy it immediately with [`pulumi up`](/docs/cli/commands/pulumi_up):
Output values like these are useful in many ways, most commonly as inputs for other stacks or related cloud resources. The computed `cdnURL`, for example, can be used from the command line to open the newly deployed website in your favorite web browser:
: The path to the folder containing the files of the website. Defaults to `www`, which is the name (and relative path) of the folder included with the template.
indexDocument
: The file to use for top-level pages. Defaults to `index.html`.
errorDocument
: The file to use for error pages. Defaults to `error.html`.
All of these settings are optional and may be adjusted either by editing the stack configuration file directly (by default, `Pulumi.dev.yaml`) or by changing their values with [`pulumi config set`](/docs/cli/commands/pulumi_config_set) as shown below.
If you already have a static website you'd like to deploy on Google Cloud Platform with Pulumi, you can do so either by replacing placeholder content in the `www` folder or by configuring the stack to point to another folder on your computer with the `path` setting:
Congratulations! You're now well on your way to managing a production-grade static website on Google Cloud with Pulumi --- and there's lots more you can do from here: