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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

Using Identity-Aware Proxy on App Engine


Cloud IAP verifies the identity of the person and controls access to our cloud applications hosted on GCP. Cloud IAP can be used with the App Engine and the Compute Engine. In our recipe, we'll use the application hosted on App Engine in our previous recipe and enable Cloud IAP. We'll see how, without any login page for the user, we are able to provide access to the application.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps, which are required before the recipe can be executed:

  1. Create or select a GCP project
  2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs like BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically)

How to do it...

With the lets-be-bad-guys application installed in our App Engine flexible environment, we will enable the IAP for this application:

  1. Navigate to the IAM & Admin section and to the submenu Identity-Aware Proxy. You'll be able to see our App Engine application listed:
  1. Configure...