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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

Monitoring and logging

We will look at monitoring in a lot more detail in Chapter 17, Monitoring Your Infrastructure, but it is wise to mention this again in terms of security. Cloud Operations is Google's service for monitoring and managing services, containers, applications, and infrastructure. Cloud Operations offers error reporting, debugging, alerts, tracing, and logging.

Logging assists in securing GCP and minimizing the downtime of your applications. Monitoring allows you to monitor application metrics that can flag an anomaly. Moreover, Cloud Operations Debugger inspects the state of your production data and compares your source code without any performance overhead. Logging allows real-time metrics logging and retains a set period, depending on the log type. If you have security requirements to keep logs for a longer period, then they can be exported to Cloud Storage, which offers inexpensive storage for extended periods.