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Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By : Sandeep Madamanchi
Book Image

Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By: Sandeep Madamanchi

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of practices that help remove barriers between developers and system administrators, and is implemented by Google through site reliability engineering (SRE). With the help of this book, you'll explore the evolution of DevOps and SRE, before delving into SRE technical practices such as SLA, SLO, SLI, and error budgets that are critical to building reliable software faster and balance new feature deployment with system reliability. You'll then explore SRE cultural practices such as incident management and being on-call, and learn the building blocks to form SRE teams. The second part of the book focuses on Google Cloud services to implement DevOps via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). You'll learn how to add source code via Cloud Source Repositories, build code to create deployment artifacts via Cloud Build, and push it to Container Registry. Moving on, you'll understand the need for container orchestration via Kubernetes, comprehend Kubernetes essentials, apply via Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and secure the GKE cluster. Finally, you'll explore Cloud Operations to monitor, alert, debug, trace, and profile deployed applications. By the end of this SRE book, you'll be well-versed with the key concepts necessary for gaining Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification with the help of mock tests.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
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Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Points to remember

The following are some important points to remember:

  • GKE is fully managed, uses a container-optimized OS, and supports autoscaling, the auto-repair of nodes, and auto-upgrades.
  • GKE supports two modes of operations – Standard and Autopilot.
  • GKE Standard mode supports VPC-native traffic routing and HTTP load balancing as default options.
  • Cloud operations for GKE are enabled as a default setting.
  • A private Kubernetes engine cluster cannot be accessed publicly.
  • A node pool represents a group of nodes with the same configuration.
  • By default, a new node pool runs the latest Kubernetes version and can be configured for auto-upgrade or can be manually upgraded.
  • Node pools in a regional or multi-zonal cluster are replicated to multiple zones.
  • A multi-zonal cluster will only have a single replica of the control plane.
  • A regional cluster has multiple replicas of the control plane running across multiple zones in a region.
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