The principles and concepts of cloud security

You may be tempted to skip ahead to the actual Google Cloud services and concepts, but we strongly recommend that you familiarize yourself with these principles first. Like the design patterns we learned about previously, these principles and policies are meant to prevent security vulnerabilities and guide your development around security best practices. It's also a relatively short section.

There are numerous design principles and methodologies that help secure an app. However, not all of them are equally relevant to cloud-native app development. In this chapter, we are going to cover three major principles listed below that cover most of what makes up cloud security.

Economy of Mechanism

This principle states that your application (microservices) needs to be small and simple enough that in case there is a security vulnerability or attack, it can be quickly identified and repaired.

To some extent, the Economy of Mechanism...