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Google Cloud Platform for Developers

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter
Book Image

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)

Networking and security

A major concern for many developers when evaluating App Engine (or any platform) is application security. Developers need control over which services are available to which consumers. Minimizing access where possible reduces a system's overall attack surface. App Engine provides a number of mechanisms for restricting access to services. Many of these methods can be combined to quickly build a powerful security layer on top of your App Engine services.

The App Engine firewall

Perhaps the simplest method to secure App Engine services is through the use of firewall rules. The App Engine Firewall allows developers to define up to 1,000 unique firewall rules over which IP address ranges may or may not...