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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Deployment Manager and created a YAML configuration file. We used the Deployment Manager to deploy a virtual machine using the YAML file we created. We also learned about the GCP marketplace and deployed a blogging application from the marketplace. The chapter only touches on some basic concepts and it is highly recommended that you continue your learning on Deployment Manager uses and concepts. We also looked into GCP Cloud SDK's and cloud API—two ways to interact with GCP programmatically. We briefly looked into cloud shell which is a powerful, easy to access tool that is readily available.