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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)

Managing Cloud SQL instances

Cloud SQL is a managed service, meaning your instances should remain healthy and available without the need for human intervention. However, there are quite a few operational tasks and settings that teams will likely want to customize in order to fine-tune their Cloud SQL instances to meet the specific needs of a given application.

Maintenance operations

More than likely, the most common operations that teams will want to perform on their Cloud SQL instances will be related to data management. Such operations include creating and restoring backups, and exporting or importing data from external sources. Cloud SQL offers simple interfaces for performing each of these tasks.

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