Google Cloud Platform Administration

With Google Cloud Platform, you can build, test and deploy applications on Google’s highly reliable and scalable infrastructure. This book will help you explore a list of different developer tools available to manage and interact with the GCP platform.

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Make the most of GCP’s offerings to manage your data center workload and optimize deployments

Key Features

Discover new techniques to administer, manage, and deploy applications on GCP
Understand effective solutions for storing, retrieving, and deploying your container images
Explore various offerings of GCP for operations and security

Book DescriptionOn-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don’t want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google’s infrastructure.

Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP’s usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.

What you will learn

Understand all GCP Compute components
Deploy and manage multiple GCP storage options
Manage and utilize the networking resources offered by GCP
Explore the functionalities and features of the GCP Container
Understand the workings of GCP operations such as monitoring and error reporting
Discover an immune GCP using its identity and security options

Who this book is forGoogle Cloud Platform Administration is for administrators, cloud architects, and engineers who want to leverage the upcoming Google Cloud Platform. Some basic understanding of cloud computing will be useful.