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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

Networking and security


A major concern for many developers when evaluating App Engine (or any platform) is application security. Developers need control over which services are available to which consumers. Minimizing access where possible reduces a system's overall attack surface. App Engine provides a number of mechanisms for restricting access to services. Many of these methods can be combined to quickly build a powerful security layer on top of your App Engine services.

The App Engine firewall

Perhaps the simplest method to secure App Engine services is through the use of firewall rules. The App Engine Firewall allows developers to define up to 1,000 unique firewall rules over which IP address ranges may or may not access services for a given application. These firewall rules may be configured within the Google Cloud Console under Navigation menu | App Engine | Firewall rules. Each rule definition includes the following components:

  • Priority: A numerical value (1-2,147,483,646) denoting...