Preface
Only a few years ago, organizations were terrified of the cloud. These days, however, someone high up in the food chain goes to a conference and comes back saying “We just HAVE to move into the cloud, NOW.”
If you start building IT services in Google Cloud, it won’t take you long before you realize that there were things that you should have done before doing the things that you did do. The issue isn’t that moving to the cloud is bad – it’s more that there’s a right way, and a hard way.
Do you remember when your parent said to you, “I’m telling you this for your own good, so you won’t make the mistakes I made.” Well, I've learned Google Cloud (mostly the hard way) and I wrote this book to help you use Google best practices to build a solid, secure, and extensible foundation on which you can set your IT services.
