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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By : Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard
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Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

By: Konrad Cłapa, Brian Gerrard

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the leading cloud service suites and offers solutions for storage, analytics, big data, machine learning, and application development. It features an array of services that can help organizations to get the best out of their infrastructure. This comprehensive guide covers a variety of topics specific to Google's Professional Cloud Architect official exam syllabus and guides you in using the right methods for effective use of GCP services. You'll start by exploring GCP, understanding the benefits of becoming a certified architect, and learning how to register for the exam. You'll then delve into the core services that GCP offers such as computing, storage, and security. As you advance, this GCP book will help you get up to speed with methods to scale and automate your cloud infrastructure and delve into containers and services. In the concluding chapters, you'll discover security best practices and even gain insights into designing applications with GCP services and monitoring your infrastructure as a GCP architect. By the end of this book, you will be well versed in all the topics required to pass Google's Professional Cloud Architect exam and use GCP services effectively.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to GCP
5
Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture
15
Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance
17
Section 4: Managing Implementation
19
Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability
21
Section 6: Exam Focus

Introduction to Stackdriver

We have already learned about a number of services, and now it is time to take a closer look at the monitoring options. Google comes with a GCP-integrated tool called Stackdriver. Stackdriver was founded in 2012 as an Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that would allow consistent monitoring across different cloud layers. In 2014, it was acquired by Google and made publicly available in 2016 as a GCP service.

Currently, Stackdriver can monitor both GCP and AWS. However, integration with the former is much more robust. Stackdriver is a suite of tools that provides the following services:

  • Monitoring
  • Logging
  • Debugging
  • Tracing
  • Error reporting
  • Profiling

Monitoring and logging are agentless, but, in order to obtain more informative metrics and logs, an agent should be installed. There are actually two types of agents that can be installed on your instances...