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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 learned a lot about using GCP tools to understand the behavior of your deployed applications. We started this chapter by talking about Stackdriver monitoring and logging, which allow you to monitor and capture application logs. We got our hands dirty by deploying a web app and setting it up with monitoring and logging. We then looked at Stackdriver error reporting, which aggregates and displays errors in your cloud services. Remember that Stackdriver error reporting works with Google App engine and Google cloud functions, and beta services include GCP Compute Engine and AWS EC2. We then dug deeper into the Stackdriver APM suite, which includes Stackdriver debugger, the Stackdriver profiler, and Stackdriver Trace. These three tools combined give us a much richer understanding of how our application behaves in production environments, without having to...