Follow Google's own ten-step plan to construct a secure, reliable, and extensible foundation for all your Google Cloud base infrastructural needs
Key Features
- Construct your foundation in Google Cloud with this clearly laid out, step-by-step guide
- Get expert advice from one of Google's top trainers
- Learn to build flexibility and security into your Google Cloud presence from the ground up
Book Description
From data ingestion and storage, through data processing and data analytics, to application hosting and even machine learning, you name the IT infrastructural need, and there's a good chance that Google Cloud has a service that can help. But instant, self-serve access to a virtually limitless pool of IT resources has its drawbacks. More and more organizations are running into cost overruns, security problems, and simple "why is this not this working?" headaches.
This book is created by one of Google's top trainers as a tutorial on how to create your infrastructure in Google Cloud the right way. By following Google's ten-step checklist to creating a foundation in Google Cloud and Google's security blueprint, you'll learn how a foundation can be created that engenders security, flexibility, and extensibility from the ground up.
By the end of this book, you'll have a thorough understanding of what it takes to create a proper Google Cloud foundational layer, understand the steps you'll need to go through to accomplish the task, and be able to use tools like Terraform confidently.
What you will learn
- Create an organizational resource hierarchy in Google Cloud
- Configure user access, permissions, and key GCP security groups
- Construct well thought out, scalable, and secure virtual networks
- Stay informed about what's happening with logging and monitoring best practices
- Leverage Terraform infrastructure as code automation to eliminate toil
- Limit access with IAM policy bindings and organizational policies
- Implement Google's secure foundation blueprint
Who This Book Is For
This book is for anyone looking to implement a secure foundational layer in Google Cloud, including cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, cloud security practitioners, developers, infrastructural management personnel, and other technical leads. A basic understanding of what the cloud is and how it works, as well as a strong desire to build out Google Cloud infrastructure the right way will help you make the most of this book. Knowledge of working in the terminal window from the command line will be beneficial.
Table of Contents
- Getting to Know Google's Cloud
- Planning and Creating an Initial Billing, Security, and Organizational Structure
- Choosing and Configuring an Identity Provider
- Standardizing, Simplifying, and Securing with Terraform Automation
- Adding a Secure and Extensible Network
- Answering Questions About What's Happening in the Cloud
- Keeping a Handle on Pricing
- Next Steps
