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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
Book Image

Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides autoscaling compute power and distributed in-memory cache, task queues, and datastores to write, build, and deploy Cloud-hosted applications. With Google Cloud Platform for Developers, you will be able to develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This book will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. You’ll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. You’ll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. This book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools such as Source Repositories, Container Builder, and StackDriver. Along the way, you’ll see how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerting for your production systems. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and you’ll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Networking fundamentals

Networking plays a critical role in virtually every aspect of Google Cloud Platform. There are a few core components to networking on GCP, primarily Compute Engine instances, networks, subnets, routes, and firewall rules. We’ve touched lightly on many of these components in previous chapters. Here, we’ll take a much closer look at what each of these components does. Understanding how these components operate and interact with one another is an important step in getting the most out of Google Cloud Platform.

Virtual private networks

The fundamental building block of networking on Google Cloud is the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network, often referred to simply as network. VPC networks are...