Chapter 1: Google Cloud Platform Infrastructure
To learn about Google Cloud Platform's infrastructure, you must have a good understanding of what cloud computing is and the cloud service models that are available, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Moreover, since Google Cloud Platform is a public cloud provider, we will provide a brief explanation of the differences between public, private, and hybrid cloud services.
Google Cloud Platform's physical architecture will be described. We will also specify the regions and zones, as well as the logical architecture that specifies the organizations, folders, projects, and resources.
A deep explanation of what a Google Compute Engine instance is, and how you can use one for your workload, will be provided in the second part of this chapter.
After introducing a few of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services, such as Cloud DNS, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Load Balancer, we will provide an overview of the DevOps culture, as applied to Kubernetes and the Google Cloud implementation of Kubernetes – Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following main topics:
- Introducing cloud computing and virtualization
- Introducing GCP
- Getting started with GCP
- Understanding virtual machines in the cloud
- Exploring containers in the cloud