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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)

Managing Compute Engine instances

Compared to App Engine, Cloud Functions, or even Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine introduces a high level of operational complexity. Compute Engine instances can be deeply customized, and there are many aspects to their management. Developing an understanding of these various aspects is critical to operating solutions on Compute Engine.

Creating instances

Creating a virtual machine on compute engine is relatively straightforward. At a minimum, developers specify an instance name, zone, machine type, and boot disk. Several other configuration options are available, and we'll cover these in later sections. As with other products and services on Google Cloud, Compute Engine resources can...