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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

Stackdriver Logging


Logs often play a critical role in many operational processes, including diagnostics, alerting, auditing, and analytics. Stackdriver Logging facilitates all of these activities by providing a single aggregated logging repository for all of your cloud resources. This includes user-provided applications, such as applications running on any GCP compute platform, managed services such as Cloud SQL; and auditing logs for project settings, infrastructure, and IAM policy changes.

In addition to aggregating logs across your Google Cloud project, Google Cloud Logging provides many powerful features, such as search, streaming, alerting, and exporting logs to other tools such as BigQuery. We've used Google Cloud Logging on a few occasions in previous chapters; here, we'll take a closer look at some of these features.

All logs in Stackdriver Logging share a uniform structure, known as the log entry. This structure includes both the logged information and several fields related to the...