Exploring GCP

Let's dive a little deeper into GCP by creating an account and getting familiar with the console and command-line interface. There are three ways to access GCP—via console, via a command-line interface using the gcloud command-line tool, and Google Cloud SDK client libraries. But before that, we need to understand the concept of projects.

In GCP, all resources must belong to a project. If you work for a large organization, don't be surprised to see tens of hundreds of projects. Projects can be tied down to a business unit or an internal or external organization. 

In GCP, any cloud resources that you create must belong to a project. A project is basically an organizing entity for any cloud resource that you wish to deploy. All ...

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