You're reading from Architecting Google Cloud Solutions Learn to design robust and future-proof solutions with Google Cloud technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563308

Length 472 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google App Engine

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Victor Dantas

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to Google Cloud

2. Chapter 1: An Introduction to Google Cloud for Architects FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Mastering the Basics of Google Cloud

4. Section 2: Designing Great Solutions in Google Cloud

5. Chapter 3: Designing the Network

6. Chapter 4: Architecting Compute Infrastructure

7. Chapter 5: Architecting Storage and Data Infrastructure

8. Chapter 6: Configuring Services for Observability

9. Chapter 7: Designing for Security and Compliance

10. Section 3: Designing for the Modern Enterprise

11. Chapter 8: Approaching Big Data and Data Pipelines

12. Chapter 9: Jumping on the DevOps Bandwagon with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

13. Chapter 10: Re-Architecting with Microservices

14. Chapter 11: Applying Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

15. Chapter 12: Achieving Operational Excellence

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Automating all things

The cloud enables automation by offering serverless and event-based compute services, some with built-in scheduling and automation capabilities. It also facilitates many types of infrastructure automation by providing programmatic capabilities and APIs for performing administrative actions on the platform. In other words, the cloud enables infrastructure to be treated like software. In Google Cloud, the Cloud Deployment Manager allows you to specify all GCP resources needed in a declarative format to implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC), a concept discussed a few times in this book. In addition, Cloud Build offers a serverless CI/CD platform for building, testing, and deploying code. We will explore these services and other GCP automation capabilities in this section.