The main requirements are:

1. Install a centos 7 vm.
2. Install docker on this vm.
3. Install mariadb docker image.

This example is taken from the Ansible GCP guide

https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/scenario_guides/guide_gce.html Some extra plugins need to be installed with the following command.

pip install requests google-auth python-requests

A service-account needs to be created and saved in a secure location

Next step is linked in the main playbook installing the latest docker version on the vm.

The final step is to install the database server.

ansible-playbook --ask-vault-pass create_vm.yml

password supersecretpassword