December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
246 pages
6h 11m
English
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Chapter 1. Getting Started
Google Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines (VMs) that run on Google’s infrastructure. You can create VMs with a variety of configurations using a number of available operating systems. The instance’s data is stored and maintained on persistent block storage that is replicated for redundancy and persists beyond the life cycle of the VM. Network access can be configured to allow your virtual machines to talk to each other, the Internet, or your own private network.
Google Compute Engine provides a variety of tools you can use to interact with and manage your Compute Engine instances and configurations; for example, you can start and stop instances, attach disk storage, and configure network access using each of these access points. The tools include the Google Developers Console (http://console.developers.google.com), which provides a web-based user interface (UI) with HTML forms for instance creation and configuration; gcloud compute, a command-line interface that can be used interactively or in scripts for simple automation; and the Compute Engine API, a RESTful API for integration into your own code and cloud-management applications.
To start working with Google Compute Engine, you first need to create a Compute Engine project in the Developers Console. A Compute Engine project is a collection of information about your application and acts as a container for your Compute Engine resources and configurations. Disks, firewalls, networks, ...
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