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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

Introduction


In this chapter, we'll discover some networking features of Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google uses a state-of-the-art software-defined network to provide the networking feature for its customers. The networking unit of encapsulation for a set of IP ranges, firewall configurations,and VPN and routing configurations is the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). VPCs can be scoped globally or regionally and are designed for high levels of security isolation and scalability. It is also possible to share the VPCs among projects.

In this chapter, we'll perform some recipes using multiple network interface cards (NICs), discover advanced features of load balancing and connect two VPCs using peering and a VPN connection.

In addition to its various VPC features, GCP also offers dedicated network services for DNS and CDN. We'll create a static website using Google Storage and put it behind Google CDN and measure its performance from varied locations.