The four main ways of interacting with Google Cloud

Imagine you’ve just visited https://cloud.google.com/getting-started and you now have a new account in Google Cloud. Maybe you even hit https://workspace.google.com/ and created a new organization with a domain, email addresses, Google Drive, the works. What’s the very first thing you should do next?

Wrong! What you should do next is build a foundation for you IT services to stand on in Google Cloud. When people build a house they don’t just grab a board and throw it up anywhere. If you don’t have a solid and secure foundation, whatever you put up is going to be unstable, unreliable, and insecure.

Now, if you want to know how to build that foundation, keep reading. We’re going to get our journey started by examining the four major ways of interacting with GCP: through the Console, from the Command-Line Interface (CLI), through the APIs with code or automation software, and through the mobile...