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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google Cloud Functions

Google Cloud Functions is a serverless environment for building and connecting cloud services. Developers and users write simple-purpose functions that are executed in response to an event that may be generated from your cloud instances or infrastructure. When the event being watched is triggered, the cloud function executes in a fully managed environment. This kind of approach saves a lot of time because a developer need not worry about having to deploy the underlying infrastructure that is required to run their code. Cloud functions remove the additional overhead of managing the environment and give a developer a fully managed execution environment that can readily be used.

Cloud functions are written in JavaScript and execute in a Node.js v6.11.5 environment. Because cloud functions execute in a Node.js environment, you can easily build and test the function...

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