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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)

Connecting to Cloud SQL

Because Cloud SQL is just a managed MySQL or PostgreSQL instance, it can be connected to using any standard MySQL/PostgreSQL client. By default, all external IP addresses are blocked from reaching your Cloud SQL instance. Connections can be established in one of two ways: using traditional IP whitelisting or via the Cloud SQL Proxy.

In most cases, the Cloud SQL Proxy is the preferable solution. With the exception of App Engine standard applications, all other platforms integrate with Cloud SQL in one of these two ways.

Authorized networks

In order to permit access from external systems, Cloud SQL provides authorized networks, which specify whitelisted IP ranges in CIDR notation. For example, in order...