You're reading from Google Cloud Platform Cookbook Implement, deploy, maintain, and migrate applications on Google Cloud Platform

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788291996

Length 280 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Author (1):

Legorie Rajan PS

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To get the most out of this book

The readers should have a Linux VM, which is where the examples can be downloaded to and executed. The Linux VM will act as your development machine. Make sure that your development machine has enough space to handle the number of dependencies that will be installed along with the code. A basic understanding of cloud services and GCP is necessary.

Few recipes have simple configuration of services and others will require changes to source code. Hence, a familiarity with a programming language (Python/Node.js) and basic Linux knowledge will be beneficial.

Due to the rapid evolution of tools and dependencies, there is the possibility of commands and code breaking. Head over to the documentation if you need to modify the commands/code to suit your needs.

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "In the alpha-mgmt network, open the SSH port 22 to all servers with the network tag alpha-server."

A block of code is set as follows:

#! /bin/bash
apt-get update
apt-get install -y apache2
cat <<EOF > /var/www/html/index.html
<html><body><h1>Hello World</h1>
<p>Web server on the alpha and beta networks</p>
</body></html>
EOF

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

### Hardcoding tokens in a program is never a good idea. This can be used only for learning ###
access_token = ""
access_token_secret = ""
consumer_key = ""
consumer_secret = ""

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ sudo echo "1 rt1" >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Choose the Automatic option under Subnet creation mode."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.