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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

The gcloud command-line tool


The primary tool for interacting with Google Cloud is the gcloud command-line interface. As the gcloud help says:

"The gcloud CLI manages authentication, local configuration, developer workflow, and interactions with Google Cloud Platform APIs"

The gcloud CLI is a fundamental component of development and operations work on Google Cloud, and it will be used heavily throughout this book.

As with the rest of the Google Cloud SDK, gcloud can be accessed at any time from within the Google Cloud Shell. The gcloud compliments the Google Cloud Console, giving users a far deeper level of control for products and services when needed.

Because gcloud plays such an important role in development and operational workflows, it's important to have a solid understanding of its core features and philosophies. The majority of commands in gcloud are specific to a given product or service; those commands will be covered in this book as part of those services. Here, we will look at the...