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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)

Creating scalable solutions with GCE

While many applications of Compute Engine may involve only one or a few dedicated VMs, many large-scale solutions involve the creation, management, and orchestration of large numbers of instances. This is where Compute Engine's emphasis on scalability and automation become apparent. Compute Engine provides a number of mechanisms for building very high-scale solutions, such as creating fleets of VMs, coordinating those VMs, and managing them with high levels of availability.

Custom images

In addition to public and third-party images, Compute Engine offers support for creating and managing custom images. Custom images are project-level resources, allowing teams to maintain private images...