Preface

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is one of the fastest growing cloud technology providers in the market today. This book focuses on giving you an introduction to GCP and sets you on a path to becoming an expert as you learn more and delve deeper. Google has been a leader in implementing cutting-edge technologies within their data centers to bring user-friendly services to the masses. You will find that through GCP, Google has exposed these advanced technologies to the market. Now any application deployed in GCP can make use of these technologies, including containers, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.

This book hopes to give you a hands-on introduction to GCP. You will deploy virtual machines and containers using Kubernetes, and configure networking. This book also aims at giving you a high-level overview of the different products offered in GCP.