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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Automating object management


Being able to migrate objects between hot and cold storage classes creates significant cost saving opportunities. However, manually managing which data should be in which storage class can quickly become burdensome, and it certainly will not scale as the amount of data increases. Very often, objects undergo predictable changes in access patterns, with older objects becoming less frequently accessed over time. To capitalize on this, Cloud Storage supports automated migration strategies through Object Lifecycle Management.

Object Lifecycle Management is configured on a per-bucket basis. Developers specify one or more conditions as well as an action to take. Supported actions may be either SetStorageClass or Delete. The action will be applied only when all conditions are met. Supported conditions include the following:

  • Age (number): The number of days since the object was initially created. Age does not take into consideration any changes to the object such as storage...