Google Cloud Platform for Architects: Design and manage powerful cloud solutions
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Packt Publishing
Using a public cloud platform was considered risky a decade ago, and unconventional even just a few years ago. Today, however, use of the public cloud is completely mainstream. Several leading technology firms including Google have built sophisticated cloud platforms, and are locked in a fierce competition for market share.
Google Cloud Platform for Architects enables you to get the best out of GCP and use it confidently to design better infrastructure. The book guides you on how to scale your system and boost its security, helping you become a skilled high-level cloud architect. As you progress, you will discover how individual cloud services are configured and used. The later chapters will even provide you with insights into the best GCP services and help you understand how and when to use them, regardless of how big or small your infrastructure is.
By the end of this book, you will be well versed with GCP and have the skills you need to develop and monitor robust cloud solutions.
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- Set up a GCP account and utilize its services using Cloud Shell, web console, and client APIs
- Leverage App Engine, Compute Engine, containers on Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Functions
- Pick the right service for your data needs from options like Bigtable and BigQuery
- Migrate Hadoop, Spark, and Pig workloads with minimal disruption to your existing infrastructure using Dataproc
- Understand the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered apps using monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tools in Stackdriver
- Explore how individual cloud services are configured and used
- The Case for Cloud Computing
- Introduction to GCP
- Compute Choices: VMs and the GCE
- GKE, AppEngine and Cloud Functions
- Google Cloud Storage: Fishing in a Bucket
- Relational Database
- NoSQL Databases
- BigQuery
- Identity and Access Management
- Managed Hadoop With Dataproc
- Load Balancing
- Networking in GCP
- Logging and Monitoring
- Infrastructure Automation
- Security on the GCP
- Pricing Considerations
- Effective Use of the GCP
