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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 Cloud SDK

Throughout this book, we have been using the cloud SDK in some shape or form. Cloud SDK provides a set of tools to manage GCP resources. Recall the use of the command gcloud which is just one of the command line tools that cloud SDK offers. Cloud SDK has other command line tools as well, such as gsutil and bq. Cloud SDK can be installed on various platforms such as Linux, Debian/Ubuntu, macOS, RedHat, and Windows.

Cloud SDK is made up of components. Components are installable parts of the SDK, such as command-line tools or packages that contain dependencies for tools in SDK. Components also allow you to access tools that are in Alpha or Beta testing phases. When you install the cloud SDK, the following components are installed: gcloud, bq, gsutil, and core. The gcloud tool gives you the ability to interact with GCP using commands in the terminal. This is ideal for...