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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By : Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj
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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

By: Vitthal Srinivasan, Loonycorn , Judy Raj

Overview of this book

Using a public cloud platform was considered risky a decade ago, and unconventional even just a few years ago. Today, however, use of the public cloud is completely mainstream - the norm, rather than the exception. Several leading technology firms, including Google, have built sophisticated cloud platforms, and are locked in a fierce competition for market share. The main goal of this book is to enable you to get the best out of the GCP, and to use it with confidence and competence. You will learn why cloud architectures take the forms that they do, and this will help you become a skilled high-level cloud architect. You will also learn how individual cloud services are configured and used, so that you are never intimidated at having to build it yourself. You will also learn the right way and the right situation in which to use the important GCP services. By the end of this book, you will be able to make the most out of Google Cloud Platform design.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Logging and Monitoring

GKE, App Engine, and Cloud Functions

Let's go back to the conversation we had on compute options in general at the start of the preceding chapter. We had discussed that there is a range, from IaaS through to SaaS. We had also spoken about how the IaaS offerings on the cloud make provisioning infra really simple. PaaS offerings allow us to just focus on writing code, without having to deal with the infrastructure. The SaaS offerings go a step further and give us functionality without even writing code:

The GCP IaaS offering, which we discussed at length, is the Google Compute Engine (GCE), which allows us to provision VMs really easily. In this chapter, we will discuss the remaining four compute options on the GCP, all of which range from IaaS through PaaS (there aren't really strong SaaS offerings on the GCP just yet). The topics we will touch upon include:

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