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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)

Datastore management and integrations

So far, we've seen how to interact with Datastore from an application's point of view. Outside of this, Datastore offers a few ways to manage data at a higher level, and to integrate with other GCP products and services.

Administrative tasks

It is often necessary to perform general administrative tasks on Datastore data such as backups, restores, and bulk data modification. To support these operations, Google provides a number of administrative tasks, which can be carried out using Datastore APIs, the gcloud tool, or the online Datastore Admin Console.

The Datastore Admin Console

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