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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

Storage solutions


There are a number of storage solutions available on Compute Engine, including boot disks, persistent disks, local SSDs, and external storage solutions such as Cloud Storage and managed databases. Each of these solutions serve to fulfil different needs, and each solution has a number of caveats and limitations.

Persistent disks

When working in cloud environments such as Compute Engine, there are several considerations that need to be made when it comes to disk storage. Virtual machines may be easily recreated, but that isn't always the case with data. To provide the same level of flexibility and availability for storage that Google brings to VMs, Compute Engine offers persistent disks as a block storage solution.

Persistent disks are network attached drives that have been engineered to provide extremely consistent IO performance within Google's datacenters. These disks are available in both standard platter and SSD, and Compute Engine provides a number of methods to act on...