Book Image

Google Cloud Platform Administration

By : Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
Book Image

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 looked at some of the networking concepts that are core to GCP. We looked at VPC networking and how it allows you to create networks and subnets in every region, as needed. Instances and resources in the region can be part of this VPC network and can automatically be assigned an internal IP address. All traffic within a VPC network can be restricted only via firewall rules. We also looked at VPC peering that lets you peer two VPC networks across two different projects. We briefly looked at other networking services offered by Google, such as load balancer, cloud CDN, cloud VPN, and cloud interconnect.