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You're reading from Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide A handy guide to designing, developing, and managing enterprise-grade GCP cloud solutions

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838555276

Length 520 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Brian Gerrard

Konrad Cłapa

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction to GCP FREE CHAPTER

2. GCP Cloud Architect Professional

3. Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform

4. Google Cloud Platform Core Services

5. Section 2: Managing, Designing, and Planning a Cloud Solution Architecture

6. Working with Google Compute Engine

7. Managing Kubernetes Clusters with Google Kubernetes Engine

8. Exploring Google App Engine as a Compute Option

9. Running Serverless Functions with Google Cloud Functions

10. Networking Options in GCP

11. Exploring Storage Options in GCP - Part 1

12. Exploring Storage Options in GCP - Part 2

13. Analyzing Big Data Options

14. Putting Machine Learning to Work

15. Section 3: Designing for Security and Compliance

16. Security and Compliance

17. Section 4: Managing Implementation

18. Google Cloud Management Options

19. Section 5: Ensuring Solution and Operations Reliability

20. Monitoring Your Infrastructure

21. Section 6: Exam Focus

22. Case Studies

23. Test Your Knowledge

24. Assessments

25. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The GCP SDK

This section will describe how to use the Google Cloud SDK. The SDK is a set of tools that allows you to manage your GCP resources and applications and includes the gcloud, gsutil, and bq command-line tools. There are, as expected, some prerequisites to installing this kit. The SDK can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows OSes and requires you to have Python 2.7.x installed. Some tools that come bundled may have additional requirements. Please refer to https://cloud.google.com/sdk/install for specific system and operating system requirements.

gcloud

gcloud is the primary command-line tool for GCP and allows you to perform common tasks in your GCP environment. There are many use cases for gcloud; for example, creating...

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Authors (2)

Konrad Cłapa

Konrad Cłapa is a Certified Google Trainer and Lead Cloud Architect working for Atos R&D. He has over 12 years' experience in the IT industry. He holds over 40 IT certification. This includes all 12/12 active Google Cloud Platform certifications making him the first in the world to achieve it. He is also listed among 40 individuals who hold Google Cloud Certified Fellow certificate. Sharing knowledge has always been important to him, so he contributes to the community by acting as a leader for a local Google Cloud Developer group. Funny fact about Konrad is that till now he never failed a GCP exam attempt including multiple beta exams that he has taken.

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Gerrard

Brian Gerrard is currently a DevOps Engineer from Scotland with over 15 years' experience in the IT industry. As well as holding the Google Certified Professional Architect and Google Certified Associate Engineer certifications, he is certified in Azure, AWS, Terraform and VMware. Brian is a firm believer in lifelong learning, and you will regularly find him contributing to his local user groups.

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