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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

Summary


To help drive customer success, Google offers tools and interfaces that aid teams in the end-to-end application management process, from developing and deploying applications to supporting them in production. With the Cloud Console, users have access to a powerful and easy-to-use interface for creating and managing cloud resources on the Google Cloud Platform. With the interactive Cloud Shell, functionality is amplified far beyond what a traditional UI could achieve. Google expands on these core features with tools such as the Cloud Shell Code Editor and Web Preview, making it possible to create, test, deploy, and monitor services—all without leaving the browser.

The Cloud Console is part of the larger set of products and services Google offers for creating and managing applications in the cloud. As mentioned, Google offers convenient IDE integrations for local development and remote debugging, as well as mobile applications to make supporting your services easy and convenient no...