Summary
In this chapter, you learned what cloud computing and virtualization are. You also learned what cloud service models are available for your business and their advantages. Moreover, since GCP is a public cloud provider, you have been given a brief explanation of the differences between public, private, and hybrid cloud services.
GCP's physical architecture was described, as well as its regions and zones. We also looked at its logical architecture and specified the various organizations, folders, projects, and resources.
A deep explanation of what a Google Compute Engine instance is, and how you can use one for your workload, was provided in the second part of this chapter.
After introducing a few of the GCP services, such as Cloud DNS, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Load Balancing, we looked at the DevOps culture and its implementation with Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
In the next chapter, you will learn how to design, plan, and prototype a GCP network.
