In this introductory chapter, we looked at the nature of the GCP and explored its services architecture. We created a new project and understood role creation and allocation. Although a new entrant on the cloud computing market, the GCP offers a complete set of services for a wide range of applications. We study these services in depth in the rest of this book.
We are now ready to get started with data science on the Google platform. In the next chapter, we'll create a VM instance on Google Compute Engine and install a data science Python stack with the Anaconda distribution. We'll explore the web UI and learn how to manage instances through the command line and the Google Shell.
