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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

Migrating traffic

Instead of splitting the traffic, we can also migrate the traffic at once. There are also gradual traffic migrating options as well so that we can gracefully change the version. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Select the checkbox next to the new version and click MIGRATE TRAFFIC, which can be found at top of the screen. On the popup window, click MIGRATE, as shown in the following screenshot:

The traffic will now be migrated to the new version.

Exam tip: Pay special attention to how you switch traffic between different versions. This can be used for both rolling out the new version as well as rolling back to the last stable version.
  1. Now, if we check the console, we will see that all the traffic is allocated to the new version:
  1. If we browse to the URL, we will see that the new version of the application is now being served:

We can see the updated message...