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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 load balancing in Google Cloud

Load balancing is a crucial network function and an important design component as it directly affects the availability and resiliency of a solution. In GCP, load balancing is a fully distributed and software-defined service (this shouldn't come as a surprise to you at this point in this book!). It is not hardware-based, which means no actual physical appliances are being provided, and no infrastructure you have to manage or operate. All load balancing services are fully managed and scale automatically. There are a few different types of load balancing in Google Cloud, all of which we will explore in this section.

Layer 7 HTTP/HTTPS load balancing

Load balancers can be categorized broadly by the layer at which they operate. This "layer" refers to the Open System Interconnection (OSI) model of networking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model), which defines seven stacked layers of communication, from the physical layer...