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Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide - Second Edition

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Book Image

Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide - Second Edition

5 (1)
By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the industry leaders thanks to its array of services that can be leveraged by organizations to bring the best out of their infrastructure. This book is a comprehensive guide for learning methods to effectively utilize GCP services and help you become acquainted with the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect certification exam. Following the Professional Cloud Architect's official exam syllabus, you'll first be introduced to the GCP. The book then covers the core services that GCP offers, such as computing and storage, and takes you through effective methods of scaling and automating your cloud infrastructure. As you progress through the chapters, you'll get to grips with containers and services and discover best practices related to the design and process. This revised second edition features new topics such as Cloud Run, Anthos, Data Fusion, Composer, and Data Catalog. By the end of this book, you'll have gained the knowledge required to take and pass the Google Cloud Certification – Professional Cloud Architect exam and become an expert in GCP services.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction to GCP
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Section 2: Manage, Design, and Plan a Cloud Solution Architecture
14
Chapter 12: Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP – Part 2
17
Section 3: Secure, Manage and Monitor a Google Cloud Solution
21
Section 4: Exam Focus

Hybrid connectivity

By hybrid connectivity, we mean connectivity between GCP and your on-premises data center. It is important if you want to connect through a secure channel to GCP and not simply traverse the internet. There are a number of ways this connectivity can be achieved. The method you choose will depend on your reliability, bandwidth, and latency requirements.

Now, let's have a look at some possible hybrid connectivity options, that is, VPN Interconnect and peering.

VPN

Cloud VPN is a regional service that will securely connect your on-premises network to GCP VPC using an IPSec tunnel. All traffic traversing the internet through the tunnel is encrypted. Both the IKEv1 and IKEv2 ciphers are supported. The VPN connection requires a Cloud VPN gateway, an on-premises VPN gateway, and two VPN tunnels that are set up from the perspective of each gateway. A connection is established when both tunnels are created. The on-premise gateway can be either a hardware or...