You're reading from Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers A practical guide to SRE and achieving Google's Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839218019

Length 482 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kubernetes

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Sandeep Madamanchi

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps

2. Chapter 1: DevOps, SRE, and Google Cloud Services for CI/CD FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: SRE Technical Practices – Deep Dive

4. Chapter 3: Understanding Monitoring and Alerting to Target Reliability

5. Chapter 4: Building SRE Teams and Applying Cultural Practices

6. Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD

7. Chapter 5: Managing Source Code Using Cloud Source Repositories

8. Chapter 6: Building Code Using Cloud Build, and Pushing to Container Registry

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Kubernetes Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

10. Chapter 8: Understanding GKE Essentials to Deploy Containerized Applications

11. Chapter 9: Securing the Cluster Using GKE Security Constructs

12. Chapter 10: Exploring GCP Cloud Operations

13. Mock Exam 1

Answers

14. Mock Exam 2

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Cloud Logging

A log is defined as a record of a status or event. Logging essentially describes what happened and provides data so that we can investigate an issue. It is critical to be able to read and parse logs across a distributed infrastructure involving multiple services and products. Cloud Logging is a GCP service that allows you to store, search, analyze, monitor, and alert others about logging data and events from Google Cloud and AWS, third-party applications, or custom application code. The information in the log entry is structured as a payload. This payload consists of information related to a timestamp, a resource that the log entry applies to, and a log name. The maximum size of a log entry is 256 KB. Each log entry indicates the source of the resource, labels, namespaces, and status codes. Cloud Logging is also the source of input for other Cloud Operations services, such as Cloud Debug and Cloud Error Reporting.

The following are the key features of Cloud Logging...