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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

Networking fundamentals


Networking plays a critical role in virtually every aspect of Google Cloud Platform. There are a few core components to networking on GCP, primarily Compute Engine instances, networks, subnets, routes, and firewall rules. We’ve touched lightly on many of these components in previous chapters. Here, we’ll take a much closer look at what each of these components does. Understanding how these components operate and interact with one another is an important step in getting the most out of Google Cloud Platform.

Virtual private networks

The fundamental building block of networking on Google Cloud is the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network, often referred to simply as network. VPC networks are global resources with project-specific scope. In other words, a single network may be used to connect various Google Cloud resources across zones and regions, but not across different projects. This lays the groundwork for many important security concepts within Google Cloud Platform...