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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

Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

The last two chapters (Chapter 5, Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories, and Chapter 6, Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry) focused on Google Cloud services to manage source code via cloud source repositories, build code via Cloud Build, and create image artifacts using Container Registry. Given that the focus of this book is to deploy containerized applications, the next three chapters (from Chapter 7, Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications, through to Chapter 9, Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs) are centered around essential concepts related to deploying containerized applications through Kubernetes, easy cluster management through Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and a rundown of key security features in GKE that are essential for hardening the Kubernetes cluster.

Kubernetes, or K8s, is an open source...