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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

Chapter 2: Mastering the Basics of Google Cloud

You might have heard the expression "Identity is the new perimeter." Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a key component of any cloud solution design and is a foundational skill. A well-designed identity solution goes a long way in protecting users and businesses in the cloud world. In addition, honing your cost discipline by leveraging the ways you can save costs in Google Cloud, as well as the different ways you can monitor and keep track of your expenses, will provide you with yet another strong pillar of cloud governance. In this chapter, to establish a strong foundation and allow you to master the basics, you will learn about Google Cloud's approach to IAM and concepts such as the least privilege principle. You will then learn how to be cost-effective within Google Cloud. To put all that into practice, you will complete a hands-on assignment based on a case study of a fictional start - up.

In this chapter,...