Before starting to read the book, some basic understanding of cloud computing would be useful. This book intends to launch your career with Google Cloud Platform. Continued and hands on learning is necessary to become an expert at GCP.

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/9781788624350_ColorImages.pdf.

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "You can create an instance from an image using the Google Cloud Platform console, the gcloud command-line tool, or the API, by following these steps."

A block of code is set as follows:

         kind: PersistentVolumeClaim 
   apiVersion: v1 
   metadata: 
         name: myvolumeclaim 
   spec: 

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ kubectl exec -it mywebapp-1-68fb69df68-4tcpp -- /bin/bash 

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Open up your workload and click on Expose."