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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

Monitoring a GCP account using Security Monkey


Monitoring the data center is an important job in the day-to-day operations of DC maintenance. Different parameters are monitored—usage of resources, idle time, software updates, performance logs, security logs, and so on. This helps administrators take preventive and corrective actions against events. Security Monkey is an open source monitoring tool developed initially by the team at Netflix to monitor their AWS infrastructure. Currently a lot of development is underway to support more and more GCP services.

In this recipe, we'll use Security Monkey on our GCP infrastructure and look at how it can be used for monitoring at an organization level.

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps 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)
  3. Enable the Google Identity and Access...