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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leading cloud service suites and offers solutions for storage, analytics, big data, machine learning, and application development. It features an array of services that can help organizations to get the best out of their infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers a variety of topics specific to Google's Professional Cloud Architect official exam syllabus and guides you in using the right methods for effective use of GCP services. You'll start by exploring GCP, understanding the benefits of becoming a certified architect, and learning how to register for the exam. You'll then delve into the core services that GCP offers such as computing, storage, and security. As you advance, this GCP book will help you get up to speed with methods to scale and automate your cloud infrastructure and delve into containers and services. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover security best practices and even gain insights into designing applications with GCP services and monitoring your infrastructure as a GCP architect. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in all the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect exam and use GCP services effectively.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to GCP
5
Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
15
Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
17
Section 4: Managing Implementation
19
Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
21
Section 6: Exam Focus

Cloud Deployment Manager

In this section, we will look at one of the most useful management tools—Google Cloud Deployment Manager. It's important to understand the concepts of Cloud Deployment Manager for exam success.

Deployment Manager allows us to automate the creation and configuration of a variety of GCP resources. We can write all the resources our application needs in a declarative format using YAML files, which ensure repeatable deployments with consistent results. YAML is a data sequencing language that humans can easily read. Overall, Deployment Manager can be referred to as Infrastructure as Code (IaC). You may have some experience with tools such as Ansible or Terraform, and will recognize that the nesting of elements occurs through indentation, rather than any braces or brackets, which are used in some other languages.

Exam tip: Deployment Manager is a...