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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Google Cloud Deployment Manager


In previous chapters, we've managed cloud resources through the use of interactive tools such as gcloud and the Google Cloud Console. This manual approach to managing infrastructure is fine for learning and tackling small projects, but it does not scale well as projects grow in size and complexity. As we touched on in Chapter 7, Google Compute Engine, there are several tools used for infrastructure management, collectively known as configuration management tools. A common thread across these tools is that they deliver value in a few key areas:

  • Repeatability: Configuration management tools allow teams to recreate entire cloud environments in a consistent manner. This makes it possible to ensure that infrastructure is consistent across projects and life cycles, and removes the possibility of an operator forgetting to execute some critical step in the provisioning process.
  • Transparency: Capturing Infrastructure as Code largely removes any mystery as to the state...