Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

coverpage

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

About Packt

Why subscribe?

Packt.com

Contributors

About the authors

Packt is searching for authors like you

Preface

Who this book is for

What this book covers

To get the most out of this book

Download the example code files

Conventions used

Get in touch

Reviews

Why GCP?

The public cloud landscape

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Standing on the shoulders of giants

A world-class global presence

Choosing your own adventure

Leading the way for big data

The Open Cloud and innovation

Dedication to customer success

Bottom-up security

In good company

Summary

The Google Cloud Console

Getting started – Google Cloud projects

Architectural role of Google Cloud projects

Creating a project

Free trials on GCP

The Google Cloud Console

Understanding the Cloud Console dashboard

The Google Cloud Shell

Launching the Cloud Shell

Supporting multiple sessions

Features and integrations

File management

Web Preview

The Cloud Shell Code Editor

Opening in Cloud Shell

Trying it out

Installing additional tools

Boost mode

Repairing the Cloud Shell

Other tools

Mobile apps

Developer tool integrations

Summary

APIs CLIs IAM and Billing

Google Cloud APIs

Managing APIs

Google APIs Explorer

Trying out the APIs Explorer

The Google Cloud SDK

Installing the Google Cloud SDK

The gcloud command-line tool

The basics of gcloud

Command groups

Root commands

Global flags

Initializing the Google Cloud SDK

Authentication

Managing your Google Cloud SDK

Updating and rollbacks

Alpha and beta channels

Configurations in the Google Cloud SDK

Modifying configuration properties

Multiple configurations

Other command-line tools

bq

gsutil

kubectl

Automating tasks with gcloud

Modifying output and behavior

Formatting attributes

Formatting projections

Filtering

Google Cloud IAM

How IAM works

IAM roles

The structure of IAM policies

Organization-level policies

Project-level policies

Resource-level policies

Cross-project access

Managing IAM

Service accounts

Billing on Google Cloud

Billing accounts

Billing accounts and IAM

Budgets and billing alerts

Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator

Creating an estimate