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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


The public cloud is an exciting and rapidly changing technology arena. With so many organizations either already leveraging public clouds or looking to make the transition, providers are in a constant arms race to win and retain customer business. This is great for customers, as it drives down costs and pushes cloud providers to deliver the products and services customers need to succeed in the cloud.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all offer excellent public cloud platforms, and choosing the right one for your needs is an important decision. Google looks to stand out as a leader in scalable managed services and big data. Google offers customers access to many of the same tools Google uses internally. By leveraging their wealth of knowledge and experience in running major services such as Search and Gmail, Google has built a platform that offers a high level of scalability and reliability. As we'll see in the following chapters, Google Cloud Platform makes it easy to build powerful cloud-based solutions.