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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 7. Google Compute Engine

Virtual machines are a staple of modern public cloud offerings. Virtually every product and service running on public clouds leverages virtual machines. For many managed services, this fundamental layer is abstracted away from users, providing a simplified interface on which to build applications. These simplified interfaces generally carry with them inherent limitations on what users can and cannot do. Google Cloud offers Compute Engine for systems that cannot or should not operate within these limitations.

 

 

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Understanding the fundamentals of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Creating and managing virtual machines on Google Cloud's infrastructure
  • Understanding the various resources available to Compute Engine instances
  • Creating custom images from existing Compute Engine instances
  • Leveraging managed instance groups to create scalable solutions