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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By : Victor Dantas
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Architecting Google Cloud Solutions

By: Victor Dantas

Overview of this book

Google has been one of the top players in the public cloud domain thanks to its agility and performance capabilities. This book will help you design, develop, and manage robust, secure, and dynamic solutions to successfully meet your business needs. You'll learn how to plan and design network, compute, storage, and big data systems that incorporate security and compliance from the ground up. The chapters will cover simple to complex use cases for devising solutions to business problems, before focusing on how to leverage Google Cloud's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities for designing modern no-operations platforms. Throughout this book, you'll discover how to design for scalability, resiliency, and high availability. Later, you'll find out how to use Google Cloud to design modern applications using microservices architecture, automation, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices. The concluding chapters then demonstrate how to apply machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to derive insights from your data. Finally, you will discover best practices for operating and monitoring your cloud solutions, as well as performing troubleshooting and quality assurance. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll be able to design robust enterprise-grade solutions using Google Cloud Platform.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud
4
Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud
10
Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

Automating all things

The cloud enables automation by offering serverless and event-based compute services, some with built-in scheduling and automation capabilities. It also facilitates many types of infrastructure automation by providing programmatic capabilities and APIs for performing administrative actions on the platform. In other words, the cloud enables infrastructure to be treated like software. In Google Cloud, the Cloud Deployment Manager allows you to specify all GCP resources needed in a declarative format to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), a concept discussed a few times in this book. In addition, Cloud Build offers a serverless CI/CD platform for building, testing, and deploying code. We will explore these services and other GCP automation capabilities in this section.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Deployment Manager

IaC is an approach to managing infrastructure by declaratively defining all infrastructure components (networks, virtual machines, databases...