October 2021
Beginner
282 pages
5h 38m
English
Content preview from Google Cloud Cookbook
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Welcome to Google Cloud! Whether you’re a seasoned cloud developer or a sysadmin moving to the cloud for the first time, you’ll find Google Cloud a great platform for building everything from the smallest serverless apps to the largest enterprise applications and data pipelines.
This chapter is a high-level overview of the platform, with some tips on how to get started. If you are already using Google Cloud, you can likely skip this chapter. If you are new to the platform, whether coming from on-premises (on-prem) or another cloud provider, you’ll find here a brief overview of the services, tools, and features you need to know to get started. Toward the end of the chapter, we’ll describe how to translate your existing cloud provider knowledge quickly. Future chapters are all traditional collections of recipes you’ll find in a cookbook.
Overview
Like most cloud platforms, Google Cloud is a collection of physical resources such as servers and storage as well as higher-level services like BigQuery or AppEngine built on top of them, all running in Google data centers. The platform is organized into zones, regions, multiregions (continents), and then the entire globe. Table 1-1 shows a rough mental model of what each of these means.
| Service regionality | Description |
|---|---|
| Zonal | A large cluster of compute in one or several data center buildings. Should be considered a single failure domain.a |
| Regional | A cluster of data ... |
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.