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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)

Summary

Google Kubernetes Engine is a powerful combination of platform and tooling to support your containerized workloads in the cloud. While GKE is a great choice for just about any type of workload, as we mentioned early in this chapter, it's especially well-suited for microservices.

GKE provides much more than just a platform for running your containerized workloads. GKE also provides the tooling and supporting system components to deploy, operate, and manage workloads at enterprise scale. Other native GCP-managed services, such as Cloud SQL and Cloud Datastore, are also easily made available to connect to from your GKE-managed container clusters. Some of the most common integrations include:

  • Subscribing or publishing to pub/sub topics
  • Utilizing Cloud SQL and/or Cloud Datastore for a transactional database
  • Storing files in Cloud Storage

How you integrate with these...