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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By : Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By: Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Legacy applications, which comprise 75–80% of all enterprise applications, often end up being stuck in data centers. Modernizing these applications to make them cloud-native enables them to scale in a cloud environment without taking months or years to start seeing the benefits. This book will help software developers and solutions architects to modernize their applications on Google Cloud and transform them into cloud-native applications. This book helps you to build on your existing knowledge of enterprise application development and takes you on a journey through the six Rs: rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining. You'll learn how to modernize a legacy enterprise application on Google Cloud and build on existing assets and skills effectively. Taking an iterative and incremental approach to modernization, the book introduces the main services in Google Cloud in an easy-to-understand way that can be applied immediately to an application. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll have learned how to modernize a legacy enterprise application by exploring various interim architectures and tooling to develop a cloud-native microservices-based application.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
5
Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
10
Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
17
Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Chapter 16: Orchestrating Your Application with Google Kubernetes Engine

The remaining three chapters of this book cover the three major options for deploying our application as cloud-native microservices, which are Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Google App Engine, and Cloud Run. This chapter focuses on GKE, which serves as a platform for deploying microservices, though not serverless ones. We will cover provisioning a cluster, configuring the environment and microservices, deploying our application, and configuring public access to the application.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introducing GKE
  • Configuring the environment
  • Deploying and configuring the microservices
  • Configuring public access to the application
  • When to use GKE

Now, let's look at what exactly GKE is and how to provision and use it.