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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Monitoring cloud services and analyzing logs

The primary components of a monitoring solution on GCP are Workspaces and the Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging services. In this section, we will explore these services and also the monitoring and logging capabilities within Google Cloud.

The monitoring landscape in Google Cloud

Workspaces are where monitoring information is organized and can be created at no charge. The monitored resources can be in one or more Google Cloud projects and one or more AWS accounts. Every Workspace has a host project, which is the GCP project in which it is created. A Workspace can monitor up to 100 Google Cloud projects and AWS accounts, but it is the host project that has all the configurations related to dashboards, alerting policies, uptime checks, notification channels, and other group definitions that you configure.

In other words, the host project is where monitoring is centralized from a governance perspective. It is not uncommon for host...