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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides autoscaling compute power and distributed in-memory cache, task queues, and datastores to write, build, and deploy Cloud-hosted applications. With Google Cloud Platform for Developers, you will be able to develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This book will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. You’ll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. You’ll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. This book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools such as Source Repositories, Container Builder, and StackDriver. Along the way, you’ll see how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerting for your production systems. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and you’ll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Preparation for this chapter

Throughout this chapter, we'll be using various features of Stackdriver. In order for these examples to be meaningful, we'll want to have something to actually monitor. For this purpose, we'll deploy a set of services for a ToDo application. These services include a Node.js web service and a Spring Boot backend service running in the App Engine flexible environment, as well as a Cloud SQL MySQL instance for persisting our to-do list.

Note that these examples will not require any prior knowledge about the frameworks used. Both services can be built from tools already installed in the Cloud Shell. Refer to Chapter 4, Google App Engine, and Chapter 9, Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner, for more information on these services:

We'll be touching on a few APIs in this chapter. Navigate to https://console.cloud.google.com...