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Google Cloud Platform for Architects

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform for Architects Design and manage powerful cloud solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788834308
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Loonycorn Ravi Loonycorn Ravi
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Preface 1. The Case for Cloud Computing FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform 3. Compute Choices – VMs and the Google Compute Engine 4. GKE, App Engine, and Cloud Functions 5. Google Cloud Storage – Fishing in a Bucket 6. Relational Databases 7. NoSQL Databases 8. BigQuery 9. Identity and Access Management 10. Managing Hadoop with Dataproc 11. Load Balancing 12. Networking in GCP 13. Logging and Monitoring 14. Infrastructure Automation 15. Security on the GCP 16. Pricing Considerations 17. Effective Use of the GCP 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google Compute Engine – GCE

Google Compute Engine is the IaaS component of the GCP that lets you create and run VM on Google infrastructure. Each VM is called a Compute Engine instance. A Compute Engine instance can run Linux and Windows server images provided by Google or any customized versions of these images. You can also build and run images of other operating systems.

You can choose the machine properties of your instances, such as the number of virtual CPUs and the amount of memory, by using a set of predefined machine types or by creating your own custom machine types.

Creating VMs

This section will walk you through creating a VM instance. There are several ways to create a VM instance in GCE:

  • Through the...
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