What this book covers

Chapter 1, Compute, contains recipes on the compute services of the GCP, namely Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, and Google Cloud Functions.

Chapter 2, Storage and Databases, provides some recipes on Google Cloud Storage and some of the database options available (Cloud Spanner, Cloud BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, and Cloud Datastore).

Chapter 3, Networking, provides a few advanced recipes on connecting two networks and handling traffic to websites.

Chapter 4, Security, discusses how to use some out-of-the-box security tools provided by the GCP and how GCP provides APIs to set up your own security systems.

Chapter 5, Machine Learning and Big Data, contains a few recipes that show the breadth of the big data offerings of GCP and some applied machine learning APIs, which will be directly consumed for our needs.

Chapter 6, Management Tools, shows us some recipes on the Stackdriver suite and the logging system to help us manage our Cloud Platform.

Chapter 7, Best Practices, covers some third-party tools and processes that can be used at the enterprise scale to derive the maximum benefit from the GCP.