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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter

Overview of this book

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides autoscaling compute power and distributed in-memory cache, task queues, and datastores to write, build, and deploy Cloud-hosted applications. With Google Cloud Platform for Developers, you will be able to develop and deploy scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language. This book will guide you in designing, deploying, and managing applications running on Google Cloud. You’ll start with App Engine and move on to work with Container Engine, compute engine, and cloud functions. You’ll learn how to integrate your new applications with the various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. This book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools such as Source Repositories, Container Builder, and StackDriver. Along the way, you’ll see how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerting for your production systems. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-versed with all the development tools of Google Cloud Platform, and you’ll develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Billing on Google Cloud

One of the biggest draws for many GCP customers is Google's competitive pricing models. Google Cloud Platform boasts a flexible billing system capable of meeting the needs of several billing scenarios. From centralized billing management to control systems that ensure budgets are not exceeded, the Google Cloud billing system is designed to empower users and facilitate transparency.

As with most other aspects of GCP, billing is viewed as a resource, with full API support and integrations with Cloud IAM. All costs are measured in terms of resource usage, making it easy to perform tasks such as financial forecasting and cost-benefit analysis. Much like IAM, billing can be managed on both the project and organization level. For large enterprises, this makes it possible to centralize billing and delegate payment management to a dedicated billing team.

Each...