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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

Google Cloud Container services


Container technologies allow developers to package applications along with their dependencies and runtime environment. Because of this, containers are a natural fit for cloud native applications and have quickly become a cornerstone of modern application management. As we've seen in previous chapters, several Google Cloud Platform products and services encorporate container technologies, including App Engine, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. In addition to these, Google Cloud Platform includes a number of container management services, primarily Google Container Registry and Container Builder.

Google Container Registry – GCR

GCR is a private Docker registry backed by Cloud Storage. GCR supports hosting images in Docker image manifest V2 and OCI formats. Being part of the Google Cloud Platform, GCR provides access control methods backed by Google Cloud IAM, including support for both users and service accounts.

Docker images are associated with registries...