June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 44m
English
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What this book covers
Chapter 1, The Case for Cloud Computing, starts with the brief history of cloud computing. Furthermore, the chapter delves into autohealing and autoscaling.
Chapter 2, Introduction to Google Cloud Platform, gets you into the nitty-gritty of the Google Cloud Platform, describing the diversity and versatility of the platform in terms of the resources available to us.
Chapter 3, Compute Choices – VMs and the Google Compute Engine, explores GCE, which serves as an IaaS provision of GCP. You will learn to create GCE VMs, along with its various aspects such as disk type and machine types.
Chapter 4, GKE, AppEngine, and Cloud Functions, discusses the four compute options on the GCP, ranging from IaaS through PaaS.