The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consists of a large and rapidly expanding catalog of products and services. Often, the solutions you build will touch many of these products and services, creating a need for a centralized and easy-to-use set of tools to interact with GCP. These tools must offer developers a way to quickly create and manage cloud resources across the Google Cloud Platform.
The quality of the developer environment is important in getting the most out of the cloud. Google looks to meet this need in a holistic manner with an easy-to-use web application offering core developer tools, including intuitive user interfaces and a readily available interactive shell with command-line tools. This chapter serves to get readers started using GCP and familiarize readers with the primary interfaces they will use when interacting with GCP.
In this chapter...