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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

Chapter 2. The Google Cloud Console

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) consists of a large and rapidly expanding catalog of products and services. Often, the solutions you build will touch many of these products and services, creating a need for a centralized and easy-to-use set of tools to interact with GCP. These tools must offer developers a way to quickly create and manage cloud resources across the Google Cloud Platform.

The quality of the developer environment is important in getting the most out of the cloud. Google looks to meet this need in a holistic manner with an easy-to-use web application offering core developer tools, including intuitive user interfaces and a readily available interactive shell with command-line tools. This chapter serves to get readers started using GCP and familiarize readers with the primary interfaces they will use when interacting with GCP.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Getting up and running with projects on Google Cloud
  • Familiarizing...