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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 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a broad catalog of products and services. Each of these products and services has a very deep control plane. In order to effectively build and manage solutions on GCP, users need a safe and meaningful way to interact with the underlying control plane. As we'll see in this chapter, Google satisfies this need with a rich and well-organized set of APIs, backed by a powerful and expressive access management system.

In this chapter, you'll learn to use the tools provided by Google to manage cloud resources. This includes creating and managing resources, interacting with Google managed services, configuring security settings, and managing billing.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Becoming familiar with the underlying APIs of Google Cloud
  • Discovering and interacting with APIs in the Google API Explorer
  • Using the Google Cloud command-line tools
  • Understanding permissions on Google Cloud with IAM
  • Understanding...