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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)

VPC networks

VPC—a Google virtual network that acts and behaves just like a physical network in a data center. VPC provides the connectivity for your virtual machine instances in the compute engine, your Kubernetes engine clusters, and other resources that you may have. Every project that you create gets a default virtual network, which has one subnet assigned to each region, and you can create more virtual networks depending on your needs. This is how the VPC network logo looks:

When you create a VPC network, its scope is global, that is, VPC networks are not tied down or associated to a specific zone or a region. While the VPC network, all routes and associated firewall rules are global, the subnetworks (subnets) created are limited to the region. All resources created within a VPC can talk to each other using the internal private IP addresses, provided they are not...