Google Cloud Platform is one of the largest and most innovative cloud providers out there. Google Cloud is used by various industry leaders such as Coca-Cola, Spotify, and Philips. Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud are always involved in a price war, which benefits consumers greatly. Google Cloud Platform covers 12 geographical regions across four continents with new regions coming up every year. Google Compute Engine, abbreviated as GCE, is one of the most popular components of Google Cloud. GCE can help users to:
- Create a virtual machine
- Create virtual machine templates
- Create and manage a group of virtual machines
- Create and manage backups as snapshots
- Manage health checks
Other than GCE, we are also going to cover network services and Google Cloud Storage in this chapter. Unfortunately, Ansible modules for Google Cloud Platform are not as comprehensive as...