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Pierluigi RitiPro DevOps with Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3897-4_2

2. Introduction to GCP

Pierluigi Riti1 
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Mullingar, Westmeath, Ireland
 

The cloud is one of the technologies most frequently adopted today. More and more companies have started to use this technology for their projects. This change is driven by different factors, for example, a reduction in the cost of spinning up new projects. Of course, this is only partially true. Normally, the cloud can be more expensive in the long run, but, on the other hand, it can reduce resources. In the cloud, it is easier to spin up a new operating system with all the environments necessary for its application.

At the same time, a cloud solution offers flexibility ...

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