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Google Cloud Platform Cookbook

By : Legorie Rajan PS
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Google Cloud Platform Cookbook

By: Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform that offers products and services to host applications using state-of-the art infrastructure and technology. You can build and host applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google's scalable infrastructure. This book follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on experience to make the most of Google Cloud services. This book starts with practical recipes that explain how to utilize Google Cloud's common services. Then, you'll see how to make full use of Google Cloud components such as networking, security, management, and developer tools. Next, we'll deep dive into implementing core Google Cloud services into your organization, with practical recipes on App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, virtual networks, and Cloud Storage. Later, we'll provide recipes on implementing authentication and security, Cloud APIs, command-line management, deployment management, and the Cloud SDK. Finally, we'll cover administration and troubleshooting tasks on applications with Compute services and we'll show how to monitor your organization's efficiency with best practices. By the end of this book, you'll have an overall understanding and hands-on implementation of Google Cloud services in your organization with ease.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Introduction


Google provides four options for the computing needs of your application. Compute Engine gives us the option to run VMs on Google Cloud Platform's infrastructure. It also provides all the networking and security features needed to run infrastructure as a service (IaaS) workloads. Google App Engine is a platform as a service (PaaS) offering that supports most of the major programming languages. It comes in two flavors, a standard environment based on container instances and a flexible environment based on Compute Engine. Google Kubernetes Engine offers a Kubernetes-powered container platform for all containerized applications. Finally, for all serverless application needs, Google Cloud Functions provides the compute power and integration with other cloud services.