© Shimon Ifrah 2021
S. IfrahGetting Started with Containers in Google Cloud Platform https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6470-6_1

1. Get Started with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Shimon Ifrah1  
(1)
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
 
In this chapter, we will get started with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by covering the following topics:

  • Get introduction to GCP

  • Learn the benefits of a GCP free tier account

  • Understand projects in GCP

  • Use Cloud Shell to deploy workloads

  • Secure the GCP account

  • Learn about GCP container services

Introduction

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) was launched in November 2011 as a public cloud computing platform offering computing, storage, networking, database, Big Data, security, and identity services. The seed that grew into GCP was the 2008 release ...

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