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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)

GCP marketplace

Google allows you access to its vast marketplace where you can readily and easily access different applications and software packages. Let's deploy a simple WordPress application from the marketplace:

  1. On your GCP Console, go to TOOLS and Deployment Manager.
  2. Click on DEPLOY MARKETPLACE SOLUTION:
  1. You will see a list of different applications that are available:
List of different applications
  1. Click on WordPress and click on Launch on Compute Engine:
  1. Click Deploy when ready. Make sure you enter an Administrator Email.
  2. You will now see the application being deployed in Deployment Manager. You will see a step-by-step deployment of the application:
  1. Under Deployments, you will see the following:

You have successfully deployed a WordPress (blogging) application from the GCP marketplace. Deleting the deployment will delete all components of the application...