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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 when to use Kubernetes

Kubernetes has been around for a while now as a container orchestration platform that adds several automation capabilities to container-based deployments. It was initially designed by Google and then released to the open source world in 2014. It is a powerful system that's capable of autoscaling (horizontally), auto-repairing, and automating how containers are managed and deployed while providing controlled rollouts and rollbacks. A useful introduction to Kubernetes is available at https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/what-is-kubernetes/. It's a beast of a system and, for that reason, not the easiest thing to work with and set up on your own infrastructure (although this has been gradually changing). Kubernetes is complex enough to deserve its own book (in fact, there are several books out there on this subject exclusively). Therefore, it is outside the scope of this book to offer a comprehensive understanding of Kubernetes and...