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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 load balancers


A common pattern in distributed services is load balancing, where network requests are shared across a pool of similar services based on a set of predefined rules. There are many load balancing technologies available as both managed and self-hosted services, with feature-sets that vary widely to meet specific use cases. One of the most distinguishing features of Google Cloud Platform is the availability of extremely powerful load balancers, which provide best-in-class features such as integrated health checks, automatic scaling, and global availability.

Google Cloud Platform offers three primary types of load balancers: HTTP(S) load balancers, TCP load balancers, and UDP load balancers. As we'll see, each type of load balancers offers a different feature set, and can be configured in a number of ways. All Google Cloud Platform load balancers can be categorized into two groups: global external load balancers and network load balancers. All load balancers distribute traffic...