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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 App Engine


Google App Engine is Google's entry to the PaaS market. Developers are able to build applications in virtually any language or framework, and hand their applications off to App Engine. The platform then manages these applications in terms of monitoring, scaling, and releasing security patches.

Google introduced the world to App Engine as a limited developer preview in April 2007. It could be said this marked the beginning of what is now GCP. Over the following years, App Engine (and its dedicated user base) has played a critical role in driving Google's Cloud strategy and entry into the public cloud market.

"One of App Engine's most requested features has been a simple way to develop traditional database-driven applications. In response to your feedback, we're happy to announce the limited preview of Google Cloud SQL."

 For more information refer to https://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-cloud-sql-your-database-in-cloud.html.

As a platform, App Engine's primary function...