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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have briefly looked at multiple storage options offered by the GCP. We started the chapter by discussing and deploying persistent storage to compute engine virtual machines. Next, we discussed cloud storage and the concept of buckets. Buckets are an object storage service and can offer low latency and flexibility. We also discussed cloud spanner, which is a fully managed relational database service. This is similar to the Google Cloud SQL service with the difference being that cloud SQL supports only MySQL and PostgreSQL engines. We ended the chapter by briefly looking at Google Cloud Bigtable, which is a petabyte scale NoSQL database service.