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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

Cloud Logging

A log is defined as a record of a status or event. Logging essentially describes what happened and provides data so that we can investigate an issue. It is critical to be able to read and parse logs across a distributed infrastructure involving multiple services and products. Cloud Logging is a GCP service that allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert others about logging data and events from Google Cloud and AWS, third-party applications, or custom application code. The information in the log entry is structured as a payload. This payload consists of information related to a timestamp, a resource that the log entry applies to, and a log name. The maximum size of a log entry is 256 KB. Each log entry indicates the source of the resource, labels, namespaces, and status codes. Cloud Logging is also the source of input for other Cloud Operations services, such as Cloud Debug and Cloud Error Reporting.

The following are the key features of Cloud Logging...