Summary

In this chapter, we covered some of the basic Google Cloud services that we can use to simplify our development and migrations to the cloud.

First, we discussed how we can use Cloud Storage to store our files. Then, we introduced Cloud Tasks as a managed service for asynchronous task execution. Next, we talked about how Firestore in Datastore mode can help us store our data in a NoSQL database, with high performance and automatic scaling.

Next, we saw how Cloud Workflows is a great tool for combining multiple pieces and creating an end-to-end solution. Then, we went through the different uses of Pub/Sub for inter-component communication. In the next section, we talked about Secret Manager and how we can use it to store our most sensitive data. Finally, Cloud Scheduler was presented as a great option to ensure that our tasks and workflows run exactly when we want.

After covering all these services, we worked together on an exercise where we used them to provide weather...