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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)

Preparing for this chapter

In this chapter, we'll be using a number of Google Cloud tools to automate service deployments. In order to follow along, you'll need a free GitHub account. If you haven't already created a GitHub account, navigate to https://github.com/join and create a new personal account. Next, fork this book's source repository on GitHub by navigating to https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Google-Cloud-Platform-for-Developers and clicking Fork.

Additionally, this chapter assumes that a default HTTP firewall already exists within your project. This firewall rule will already be configured if you previously created a Compute Engine instance in the Cloud Console with the Allow HTTP Traffic option, or followed along in Chapter 7, Google Compute Engine. If not, you can create the firewall rule now by executing the script available in this book&apos...