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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Google Cloud Platform Administration

By: Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

Overview of this book

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure. Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we learned about Google's virtual machine capabilities using the compute engine, which allows you to deploy a rich set of virtual machines with a variety of features. We then looked at the app engine, which provides a PaaS environment that allows you to deploy your application using an SDK. Kubernetes engine is a powerful container orchestration and cluster management feature that allows you to deploy, manage, and scale your containers' workloads. Google Cloud Functions provide a serverless execution environment that lets you deploy your single-purpose functions into the cloud without the need to build, manage, and maintain a deployment environment or infrastructure. Cloud functions can react or be invoked using triggers that are tied to your cloud infrastructure or applications. In the next chapter, we will look into different storage options...