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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By : Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
Book Image

The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By: Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Legacy applications, which comprise 75–80% of all enterprise applications, often end up being stuck in data centers. Modernizing these applications to make them cloud-native enables them to scale in a cloud environment without taking months or years to start seeing the benefits. This book will help software developers and solutions architects to modernize their applications on Google Cloud and transform them into cloud-native applications. This book helps you to build on your existing knowledge of enterprise application development and takes you on a journey through the six Rs: rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining. You'll learn how to modernize a legacy enterprise application on Google Cloud and build on existing assets and skills effectively. Taking an iterative and incremental approach to modernization, the book introduces the main services in Google Cloud in an easy-to-understand way that can be applied immediately to an application. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll have learned how to modernize a legacy enterprise application by exploring various interim architectures and tooling to develop a cloud-native microservices-based application.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
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Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
10
Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
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Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Using Cloud SQL Proxy

Before getting started on updating our application to use Cloud SQL Proxy to connect to our Cloud SQL instance, it is important to understand why we use it.

Cloud SQL Proxy provides us with access to Cloud SQL instances without having to whitelist IP addresses or configure SSL. This means we get secure connections without complex configuration and easier connection management as Cloud SQL Proxy handles authentication with Cloud SQL. Because we don't need whitelisting or other such network security measures when using Cloud SQL Proxy, it uses a service account to authenticate with the Cloud SQL instance. Finally, Cloud SQL Proxy handles the failover from the primary to the standby Cloud SQL instance if the primary Cloud SQL instance becomes unresponsive.

Let's get started with installing and configuring Cloud SQL Auth Proxy by performing the following steps:

  1. In our Tomcat virtual machine, enter the following command to download the Cloud...