Summary

This chapter focused on the last of the compute solutions available in Google Cloud. We started with Google Cloud Run, which offers a serverless experience via containers. Then, we jumped into Cloud Functions, where serverless and event-based functions can run code without the need to provision or manage infrastructure. After, we explored the fantastic World of IaC with Terraform. We finalized this chapter by looking at Google Cloud Marketplace, which allows us to consume predefined, pre-configured, and tightly integrated offerings.

In the upcoming chapter, we will jump into the topic of data storage in Google Cloud. We will learn about different storage types, including object storage with Google Cloud Storage, block storage for local and persistent disks in Compute Engine VMs and GKE, file storage using Filestore, relational databases such as Cloud SQL and Spanner, NoSQL databases such as Cloud Bigtable and Firestore, data warehousing through BigQuery, and in-memory database...