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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

Billing on Google Cloud


One of the biggest draws for many GCP customers is Google's competitive pricing models. Google Cloud Platform boasts a flexible billing system capable of meeting the needs of several billing scenarios. From centralized billing management to control systems that ensure budgets are not exceeded, the Google Cloud billing system is designed to empower users and facilitate transparency.

As with most other aspects of GCP, billing is viewed as a resource, with full API support and integrations with Cloud IAM. All costs are measured in terms of resource usage, making it easy to perform tasks such as financial forecasting and cost-benefit analysis. Much like IAM, billing can be managed on both the project and organization level. For large enterprises, this makes it possible to centralize billing and delegate payment management to a dedicated billing team.

Each Google Cloud service has a specific billing model based on that service's resources and usage. For example, on Compute...