© Navin Sabharwal, Piyush Pandey 2021
N. Sabharwal, P. PandeyPro Google Cloud Automationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6573-4_1

1. Introduction to GCP Automation

Navin Sabharwal1   and Piyush Pandey2
(1)
New Delhi, Delhi, India
(2)
New Delhi, India
 
This chapter covers the automation building blocks of GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and explains how to set up a GCP account. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:

  • An introduction to GCP

  • GCP’s automation building blocks

  • Signing up for Google Cloud

Introduction to GCP

The Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the public cloud offering from Google that provides a collection of IaaS and PaaS services to end consumers on an on-demand basis. Their services are well positioned for the modern application development ...

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