Google Cloud Foundation Services

In Part 1 of the book, we dived into the Amazon cloud, explored and provisioned cloud services for compute, storage, networking, databases, big data, and machine learning. Now, in this second part, we are switching to another cloud platform: Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCP has many similarities with AWS but also has many of its own features. Finding the similarities and examining the differences are what we will do in the second part of the book. In this chapter, we will focus on GCP’s foundation services, including the following:

• Google Cloud resource hierarchy – organization, folders, projects, and resources
• Google compute services – Google Compute Engine (GCE), Google App Engine (GAE), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Google Cloud Functions (serverless)
• Google storage services – Persistent Disk (PD), Filestore, and Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
• Google Cloud networking services – Virtual Private...