Summary
In this chapter, we continued laying our foundation in Google Cloud by completing Step 4, Setting Up Billing and Cost Controls, from Google’s 10-step recipe. You now have a better understanding of how Google Cloud Billing works and can configure both Payments Profiles and billing accounts. You know how to find billing reports, can create budgets and budget alerts, and can cap usage by creating quotas. You also learned a little bit about the new FinOps approach to keeping cloud costs under control and have a path to breaking down the cost knowledge walls your organization likely has. This will help keep more of the organization in the loop when it comes to what things cost in Google Cloud. You’ve done a fantastic job and just think – you’re almost halfway there!
If you want to keep moving through the checklist steps with me, your tutor, then please move on to Chapter 4, Terraforming a Resource Hierarchy.
