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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


Google Kubernetes Engine is a powerful combination of platform and tooling to support your containerized workloads in the cloud. While GKE is a great choice for just about any type of workload, as we mentioned early in this chapter, it's especially well-suited for microservices.

GKE provides much more than just a platform for running your containerized workloads. GKE also provides the tooling and supporting system components to deploy, operate, and manage workloads at enterprise scale. Other native GCP-managed services, such as Cloud SQL and Cloud Datastore, are also easily made available to connect to from your GKE-managed container clusters. Some of the most common integrations include:

  • Subscribing or publishing to pub/sub topics
  • Utilizing Cloud SQL and/or Cloud Datastore for a transactional database
  • Storing files in Cloud Storage

How you integrate with these services will differ based on your specific needs and the services you use. For instance, you may want to create a proxy when...