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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

The Google Cloud Shell


While the Google Cloud Console is an intuitive tool capable of many high-level management tasks, there are many cases that call for more powerful and expressive tools. For these cases, Google offers an innovative solution: the Google Cloud Shell. The Google Cloud Shell is a free, fully managed, interactive web-based shell with deep integrations into the Cloud Console and the rest of the Google Cloud Platform.

The Google Cloud Shell is one of many components built into the GCP ecosystem geared for developer and operational enablement. Other components include version control with source repositories, container builder, and deployment manager for build processes and continuous delivery applications, IDE integrations, and cloud service emulators for local development, to name a few. Taken as a whole, this suite of tools and services makes developing services for GCP a seamless experience.

Cloud Shell runs on top of a g1-small Google Compute Engine instance sporting Debian...