You're reading from Professional Cloud Architect Google Cloud Certification Guide Build a solid foundation in Google Cloud Platform to achieve the most lucrative IT certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801812290

Length 664 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Konrad Cłapa

Brian Gerrard

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to GCP

2. Chapter 1: GCP Cloud Architect Professional FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform

4. Chapter 3: Google Cloud Platform Core Services

5. Section 2: Manage, Design, and Plan a Cloud Solution Architecture

6. Chapter 4: Working with Google Compute Engine

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Google App Engine as a Compute Option

8. Chapter 6: Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Google Kubernetes Engine

9. Chapter 7: Deploying Cloud-Native Workloads with Cloud Run

10. Chapter 8: Managing Cloud-Native Workloads with Anthos

11. Chapter 9: Running Serverless Functions with Google Cloud Functions

12. Chapter 10: Networking Options in GCP

13. Chapter 11: Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP – Part 1

14. Chapter 12: Exploring Storage and Database Options in GCP – Part 2

15. Chapter 13: Analyzing Big Data Options

16. Chapter 14: Putting Machine Learning to Work

17. Section 3: Secure, Manage and Monitor a Google Cloud Solution

18. Chapter 15: Security and Compliance

19. Chapter 16: Google Cloud Management Options

20. Chapter 17: Monitoring Your Infrastructure

21. Section 4: Exam Focus

22. Chapter 18: Case Studies

23. Chapter 19: Test Your Knowledge

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

The GCP SDK

This section will describe how to use the Google Cloud SDK. The SDK is a set of tools that allows you to manage your GCP resources and applications and includes the gcloud, gsutil, and bq command-line tools. There are, as expected, some prerequisites to installing this kit. The SDK can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows OSes and requires you to have Python 2.7.x installed. Some tools that come bundled may have additional requirements. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/sdk/install for specific system and operating system requirements.

gcloud

gcloud is the primary command-line tool for GCP and allows you to perform common tasks in your GCP environment. There are many use cases for gcloud; for example, creating and managing GCE instances, Cloud SQL instances, Kubernetes Engine clusters, Dataproc clusters, DNS zones, and Cloud Deployment Manager deployments.

When you are using gcloud for the first time, it is advisable to check out the usage guidelines. Adding...