Summary
As for any DevOps team’s dreams, the goal of this chapter has been to help you get started with understanding the fundamentals and importance of enabling organizations and teams to just focus on the business priorities and code, and leave the rest to the cloud platform. This way, DevOps teams can focus on more innovative activities that enable business growth while the platform keeps the lights on for you.
In this chapter, we have comprehensively explored the crucial intersection of DevOps practices and database operations with focused information on managing databases in the Google Cloud ecosystem. We have covered operational aspects such as maintenance, monitoring, security, privacy, encryption, replication, availability, consistency, scalability, performance, throughput, SLA, SLI, SLO, data federation, CI/ CD, migration, insights, and how to address some of these with Google Cloud databases and services.
In the upcoming chapters, we will look at data modeling...