Table Of ContentJJ Geewax
Foreword by Urs Hölzle
M A N N I N G
Google Cloud Platform in Action
Google Cloud
Platform in Action
JJ GEEWAX
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brief contents
PART 1 GETTING STARTED........................................................1
1 ■ What is “cloud”? 3
2 ■ Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud 24
3 ■ The cloud data center 38
PART 2 STORAGE....................................................................51
4 ■ Cloud SQL: managed relational storage 53
5 ■ Cloud Datastore: document storage 89
6 ■ Cloud Spanner: large-scale SQL 117
7 ■ Cloud Bigtable: large-scale structured data 158
8 ■ Cloud Storage: object storage 199
PART 3 COMPUTING .............................................................241
9 ■ Compute Engine: virtual machines 243
10 ■ Kubernetes Engine: managed Kubernetes clusters 306
11 ■ App Engine: fully managed applications 337
12 ■ Cloud Functions: serverless applications 385
13 ■ Cloud DNS: managed DNS hosting 406
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PART 4 MACHINE LEARNING..................................................425
14 ■ Cloud Vision: image recognition 427
15 ■ Cloud Natural Language: text analysis 446
16 ■ Cloud Speech: audio-to-text conversion 463
17 ■ Cloud Translation: multilanguage machine
translation 473
18 ■ Cloud Machine Learning Engine: managed
machine learning 485
PART 5 DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYTICS.............................519
19 ■ BigQuery: highly scalable data warehouse 521
20 ■ Cloud Dataflow: large-scale data processing 547
21 ■ Cloud Pub/Sub: managed event publishing 568
contents
foreword xvii
preface xix
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiii
about the cover illustration xxvii
PART 1 GETTING STARTED ..............................................1
1 What is “cloud”? 3
1.1 What is Google Cloud Platform? 4
1.2 Why cloud? 4
Why not cloud? 5
1.3 What to expect from cloud services 6
Computing 6 ■ Storage 7 ■ Analytics (aka, Big Data) 8
Networking 8 ■ Pricing 9
1.4 Building an application for the cloud 9
What is a cloud application? 9 ■ Example: serving photos 10
Example projects 12
1.5 Getting started with Google Cloud Platform 13
Signing up for GCP 13 ■ Exploring the console 14
Understanding projects 15 ■ Installing the SDK 16
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1.6 Interacting with GCP 18
In the browser: the Cloud Console 18 ■ On the command line:
gcloud 20 ■ In your own code: google-cloud-* 22
2 Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud 24
2.1 System layout overview 25
2.2 Digging into the database 26
Turning on a Cloud SQL instance 27 ■ Securing your Cloud SQL
instance 28 ■ Connecting to your Cloud SQL instance 30
Configuring your Cloud SQL instance for WordPress 30
2.3 Deploying the WordPress VM 31
2.4 Configuring WordPress 33
2.5 Reviewing the system 36
2.6 Turning it off 37
3 The cloud data center 38
3.1 Data center locations 39
3.2 Isolation levels and fault tolerance 42
Zones 42 ■ Regions 42 ■ Designing for fault tolerance 43
Automatic high availability 45
3.3 Safety concerns 45
Security 46 ■ Privacy 47 ■ Special cases 48
3.4 Resource isolation and performance 48
PART 2 STORAGE ..........................................................51
4 Cloud SQL: managed relational storage 53
4.1 What’s Cloud SQL? 54
4.2 Interacting with Cloud SQL 54
4.3 Configuring Cloud SQL for production 60
Access control 60 ■ Connecting over SSL 61 ■ Maintenance
windows 66 ■ Extra MySQL options 67
4.4 Scaling up (and down) 68
Computing power 69 ■ Storage 69
4.5 Replication 71
Replica-specific operations 75
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4.6 Backup and restore 75
Automated daily backups 76 ■ Manual data export to
Cloud Storage 77
4.7 Understanding pricing 81
4.8 When should I use Cloud SQL? 83
Structure 83 ■ Query complexity 84 ■ Durability 84
Speed (latency) 84 ■ Throughput 84
4.9 Cost 85
Overall 85
4.10 Weighing Cloud SQL against a VM running MySQL 87
5 Cloud Datastore: document storage 89
5.1 What’s Cloud Datastore? 90
Design goals for Cloud Datastore 91 ■ Concepts 92
Consistency and replication 96 ■ Consistency with
data locality 99
5.2 Interacting with Cloud Datastore 101
5.3 Backup and restore 107
5.4 Understanding pricing 110
Storage costs 110 ■ Per-operation costs 110
5.5 When should I use Cloud Datastore? 111
Structure 111 ■ Query complexity 112 ■ Durability 112
Speed (latency) 112 ■ Throughput 113 ■ Cost 113
Overall 113 ■ Other document storage systems 115
6 Cloud Spanner: large-scale SQL 117
6.1 What is NewSQL? 118
6.2 What is Spanner? 118
6.3 Concepts 118
Instances 119 ■ Nodes 120 ■ Databases 120 ■ Tables 120
6.4 Interacting with Cloud Spanner 121
Creating an instance and database 122 ■ Creating a table 125
Adding data 127 ■ Querying data 127 ■ Altering database
schema 131
6.5 Advanced concepts 132
Interleaved tables 133 ■ Primary keys 136 ■ Split points 137
Choosing primary keys 138 ■ Secondary indexes 139
Transactions 145
