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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

IAM and billing


One of the major selling points of Cloud Functions is the potential for major cost savings. Because functions only use compute resources during invocation, they tend to be much cheaper than maintaining dedicated services that tie up resources throughout their lifetime.

Cloud Functions are billed based on a few operational metrics:

  • Number of invocations
  • Provisioned compute resources and duration of execution
  • Network resources

For number of invocations, functions are charged in units of millions. The current price for this is $0.40 per million invocations per month, with the first two million invocations per month being free. Compute resources are calculated as units of 100 milliseconds execution time multiplied by the amount of compute resources allocated during deployment with the --memory flag. For network resources, all inbound traffic is free, while outbound traffic will incur $0.12 per GB of traffic, with the first 5 GB being free every month.

Cloud Functions and IAM

As with...