Introducing GCP

• Welcome to GCP Fundamentals

  • this course focus on Compute Engine and basics of Networking

• What is Cloud computing?

  • Cloud computing is a way of using IT that has these 5 traits:
    1. On-demand self-service: no human intervention needed to get resources
    2. Broad network access: access from anywhere
    3. Resource pooling: provider shares resources to customers
    4. Rapid elasticity: Get more resources quickly as needed
    5. Measured service: Pay only for what you consume.

• How did we get here?

  • Physical/Colocations: User-configured, managed and maintained.
  • Virtualized: User-configured. Provider-managed and maintained.
  • Serverless: Fully automated.

• Every company is a data company:

  • At some point, most of software will be considered as a commodity. Therefore the most valuable asset of a company will be the data it has about the users.

• GCP computing archtectures

  • Compute Engine: IaaS
  • Kubernetes Engine: Hybrid
  • App Engine: PaaS
  • Cloud Functions: Serverless logic
  • Managed Services: Automated elastic resources

• The Google network / GCP regions and zones

  • Think in a zone as a single point of failure within a region

• Google offers customer-friendly pricing

  • Billing in sub-hour increments
  • Discounts for sustained use
  • Discounts for committed use
  • Discounts for preemptible use
  • Custom VM instance types

• Open API

  • GCP uses open APIs and it helps to prevent vendor lock-in

• Why choose GCP?

  • "GCP enables developers to build, test, and deploy applications on Google's highly secure, reliable and scalable infrastructure."
  • Review GCP Services:
    • Compute:
      • Compute Engine
      • Kubernetes Engine
      • App Engine
      • Cloud Functions
    • Storage
      • Bigtable
      • Cloud Storage
      • Cloud SQL
      • Cloud Spanner
      • Cloud Datastore
    • Big Data
      • Big Query
      • Pub/Sub
      • Data flow
      • Data proc
      • Data lab
    • Machine Learning
      • Natural Language API
      • Vision API
      • Machine Learning
      • Speech API
      • Translate API

• Multi-layered security approach

  • GCP is very secure

• Budgets and Billing

  • To prevent surprises, you can set and budget alert and keep your billing under control