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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Kubernetes engine

One of the most interesting and sought-after features of Google cloud platform is its Kubernetes engine. The Google Kubernetes engine provides a way to deploy, manage, and scale your containerized applications. Kubernetes provides an environment that contains multiple compute engine instances that work together as a container cluster. Kubernetes engine gives you all the benefits of running clusters such as load balancing and automatic scaling and upgrades.

Kubernetes is a hot topic and is one of the most sought after skill in the market. Learning Kubernetes the GCP way is a valuable skill.

In Kubernetes, a container cluster consists of one or more cluster master and multiple machine instances called nodes. These machine instances are compute engine instances that work as a cluster node. All your containers run on top of this container cluster. You can create...