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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Google Cloud Functions

Google Cloud Functions is a serverless environment for building and connecting cloud services. Developers and users write simple-purpose functions that are executed in response to an event that may be generated from your cloud instances or infrastructure. When the event being watched is triggered, the cloud function executes in a fully managed environment. This kind of approach saves a lot of time because a developer need not worry about having to deploy the underlying infrastructure that is required to run their code. Cloud functions remove the additional overhead of managing the environment and give a developer a fully managed execution environment that can readily be used.

Cloud functions are written in JavaScript and execute in a Node.js v6.11.5 environment. Because cloud functions execute in a Node.js environment, you can easily build and test the function...