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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

Creating scalable solutions with GCE


While many applications of Compute Engine may involve only one or a few dedicated VMs, many large-scale solutions involve the creation, management, and orchestration of large numbers of instances. This is where Compute Engine's emphasis on scalability and automation become apparent. Compute Engine provides a number of mechanisms for building very high-scale solutions, such as creating fleets of VMs, coordinating those VMs, and managing them with high levels of availability.

Custom images

In addition to public and third-party images, Compute Engine offers support for creating and managing custom images. Custom images are project-level resources, allowing teams to maintain private images that can be heavily configured for specific use cases. There are a few ways to create custom images, including generation from a persistent disk, copying an existing image, and importing images in RAW format. The process of preparing and importing images in RAW format is...