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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)

Google Cloud Spanner

Google Cloud Spanner is a fully managed relational database service. The service allows you to deploy mission critical databases and offers transactional consistency globally, along with automatic synchronous replication for high availability. Cloud spanner is ideal for mission critical databases that require replication and strong transactional consistency. This logo represents Google Cloud Spanner:

Cloud spanner databases are replicated synchronously; this is done at a global scale. The underlying operating system that powers cloud spanner has the ability to synchronously replicate at a byte level. Cloud spanner stores the databases as a bunch of files and the filesystem takes care of replicating these files across multiple regions. Cloud spanner stores all data as rows and replicates these rows on to multiple regions for high availability.

Cloud spanner...