Google Cloud Platform in Action

List of Figures

Chapter 1. What is “cloud”?

Figure 1.1. Steady growth in resource consumption

Figure 1.2. Unexpected pattern of resource consumption

Figure 1.3. Serving photos dynamically through your web server

Figure 1.4. Serving photos statically through your web server

Figure 1.5. Serving photos statically through Google Cloud Storage

Figure 1.6. Google Cloud Platform

Figure 1.7. Google Cloud Platform free trial

Figure 1.8. Google Cloud Console

Figure 1.9. Google Cloud Console, where you can create a new virtual machine

Figure 1.10. Form where you define your virtual machine

Figure 1.11. The listing of your VM instances

Chapter 2. Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud

Figure 2.1. Flow of a future request to a VM running WordPress ...