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title: Next steps
url: /docs/iac/get-started/gcp/next-steps/
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Congratulations! You've successfully provisioned some cloud resources using Pulumi. By completing this guide you have successfully:

- Created a Pulumi new project.
- Provisioned a new storage bucket.
- Turned it into a static website.
- Created a website component for easy reuse.
- Destroyed all of the resources you've provisioned.

Below are some recommended next steps, including examples and tutorials that you can explore or use them as a foundation for your own applications and infrastructure projects. Also be sure to [join the Community Slack](https://slack.pulumi.com/) to meet fellow IaC practitioners.

## Try Pulumi ESC (Environments, Secrets, and Configuration)

[Pulumi ESC](/docs/esc/) is a centralized secrets management and orchestration service. It introduces the concepts of _environments_ --- managed collections of static and dynamic settings that you can use to configure any project, stack, application, or service, including with short-lived cloud credentials through OpenID Connect.

With Pulumi ESC you can:

- **Stop secret sprawl.** Pull and sync configuration and secrets with any secrets store – including HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, GCP Secret Manager, 1Password, and more – and consume in any application, tool, or CI/CD platform.
- **Trust (and prove) your secrets are secure.** Every environment can be locked down with role-based access controls (RBAC) and versioned with all changes fully logged for auditing.
- **Ditch `.env` files.** No more storing secrets in plaintext on dev computers. Developers can easily access secrets via CLI, API, Kubernetes operator, the Pulumi Cloud UI, and in-code with Typescript/Javascript, Python, and Go SDKs.

[Learn more about Pulumi ESC →](/docs/esc/get-started)

## Try a tutorial

Let our Google Cloud tutorials guide you through key Pulumi concepts.

[Browse tutorials →](/tutorials/)

## Launch a new project with a template

Easily deploy the most common cloud architectures, from [static websites](/templates/static-website/gcp/) to [serverless applications](/templates/serverless-application/gcp/), [virtual machines](/templates/virtual-machine/gcp/), [container services](/templates/container-service/gcp/), and [Kubernetes clusters](/templates/kubernetes/gcp/).

[Browse templates →](/templates/)

## Dive into the docs

Read more about Pulumi's architecture and foundational concepts in depth, including [projects](/docs/concepts/projects/), [stacks](/docs/concepts/stack/), [configuration](/docs/concepts/config/), [secrets](/docs/concepts/secrets/), [resources](/docs/concepts/resources/), [state](/docs/concepts/state/), and more.

[Read the docs →](/docs/concepts/)

## Check out the blog

Browse the latest posts on using Pulumi with Google Cloud, including everything from new Google Cloud products and features to technical architectures and best practices.

[Browse Google Cloud posts →](/blog/tag/google-cloud/)