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D. CabiancaGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification CompanionCertification Study Companion Serieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9354-6_2

2. Designing, Planning, and Prototyping a Google Cloud Network

Dario Cabianca1  
(1)
Georgetown, KY, USA
 

Like in a data center, computers are physically interconnected with cables, and data are transmitted across the network(s) using bridges, repeaters, switches, and routers; in the cloud, the compute elements of your workload—for example, Compute Engine instances (commonly known as virtual machines—VMs), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) nodes, Cloud Run container instances, App Engine ...

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