Google Cloud Platform Cookbook: Implement, deploy, maintain, and migrate applications on Google Cloud Platform (English Edition)

Practical recipes to implement cost-effective and scalable cloud solutions for your organization

Key Features

Implement Google Cloud services in your organization

Leverage Google Cloud components to secure your organization's data

A recipe-based guide that promises hands-on experience in deploying a highly scalable and available environment




Book Description

Google Cloud Platform is a cloud computing platform that offers products and services to host applications using state-of-the art infrastructure and technology. You can build and host applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google's scalable infrastructure. This book follows a recipe-based approach, giving you hands-on experience to make the most of Google Cloud services.

This book starts with practical recipes that explain how to utilize Google Cloud's common services. Then, you'll see how to make full use of Google Cloud components such as networking, security, management, and developer tools. Next, we'll deep dive into implementing core Google Cloud services into your organization, with practical recipes on App Engine, Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, virtual networks, and Cloud Storage. Later, we'll provide recipes on implementing authentication and security, Cloud APIs, command-line management, deployment management, and the Cloud SDK. Finally, we'll cover administration and troubleshooting tasks on applications with Compute services and we'll show how to monitor your organization's efficiency with best practices.

By the end of this book, you'll have an overall understanding and hands-on implementation of Google Cloud services in your organization with ease.

What you will learn

Host a Python application on Google Compute Engine

Host an application using Google Cloud Functions

Migrate a MySQL DB to Cloud Spanner

Configure a network for a highly available application on GCP

Learn simple image processing using Storage and Cloud Functions

Automate security checks using Policy Scanner

Understand tools for monitoring a production environment in GCP

Learn to manage multiple projects using service accounts