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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)
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Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
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Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
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Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
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Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Cloud IAM on Google Cloud Platform

Many cloud service providers have versions of IAM for their cloud applications. So far, whenever we've mentioned Cloud IAM, we were referring to IAM on the cloud in general but since the IAM service on Google Cloud Platform is called Cloud IAM, we will refer to that specifically whenever we use the term Cloud IAM.

Cloud IAM and traditional IAM are very similar in that they both allow developers to control access and manage identities from the same service, with the cloud service being much more flexible and scalable. Cloud IAM also has a wide range of additional features on top of the basic IAM functionality. We'll discuss these components in this chapter as well but first, let's take a look at the features of Cloud IAM, as well as the Cloud IAM life cycle.

Features of Cloud IAM

We will provide a brief explanation of the key features of Cloud IAM in the following subsections.

Comes at no additional cost

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