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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

Understanding IAM

IAM is the discipline that ensures the right access is given to the right individuals and systems. Since the explosion of internet-connected devices and the ease with which company employees can now reach internal IT systems and work apps over the internet (as opposed to from within a firewalled corporate network), it is now generally accepted that identity, not the network, is the security perimeter. You might have heard the phrase "Identity is the new perimeter." This is because this new perimeter extends well beyond the corporate network environment to include personal computers and devices in remote locations. This means that no matter how well-protected networks are, it is still crucial to have strong security policies in place to secure users' identities and to have measures in place that mitigate risks if – and when – identities are breached. A compromised identity, especially a privileged one, can cause so much damage to the business...