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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
Book Image

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)

Stackdriver Logging

Logs often play a critical role in many operational processes, including diagnostics, alerting, auditing, and analytics. Stackdriver Logging facilitates all of these activities by providing a single aggregated logging repository for all of your cloud resources. This includes user-provided applications, such as applications running on any GCP compute platform, managed services such as Cloud SQL; and auditing logs for project settings, infrastructure, and IAM policy changes.

In addition to aggregating logs across your Google Cloud project, Google Cloud Logging provides many powerful features, such as search, streaming, alerting, and exporting logs to other tools such as BigQuery. We've used Google Cloud Logging on a few occasions in previous chapters; here, we'll take a closer look at some of these features.

All logs in Stackdriver Logging share a uniform...