The aim of this chapter is to familiarize ourselves with the implementation of various compute solutions. We will cover the Google Compute Engine (GCE). We will try to create each computing solution, in this and the upcoming chapters, by using the Cloud console and the command line with the gcloud CLI. We will learn how…
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Quota increase – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Study Guide
Quota increase is an automated process where many pre-existing factors such as project longevity, how long you have been using Google Cloud, and whether the account is newly created are evaluated. Some quotas might be denied now for you but approved later. Fortunately, it is not a fully automated process, and Cloud Customer Billing works…
Enabling an API – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
We can enable an API in two places – Cloud Console or Google Cloud Shell. Let’s start with Cloud Console. Enabling an API in Cloud Console To enable an API in Cloud Console, we need to go to APIs & Services in our project: Figure 3.32 – Overview of APIs & Services Simply type the…
Budget creation – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
To create a budget for a Cloud Billing account, we need to have billing.budgets.create permissions. To view all budgets, billing.budgets.get and billing.budgets.list IAM permissions are required. One way of assigning this permission could be the IAM role assignment of Billing Account Administrator or Billing Account Costs Manager. Let’s create our first budget in Google Cloud…
Billing exports – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Google Cloud offers additional possibilities for those whose existing billing and cloud usage reporting isn’t enough. Billing exports allow customers to export billing data into the Google Cloud data warehouse called BigQuery. We will learn about BigQuery in upcoming chapters, but in the context of billing exports, BigQuery can be used to export all billing…
Linking a new project to a billing account – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Our billing account is created, and we are ready to use it. We will guide you through the new project creation process and associate it with the billing account. The following are the steps to link a new project to an existing billing account: Figure 3.13 – Initial phase of new project creation Figure 3.14…
Program duration – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
The free trial program ends when you spend your $300 in credits or 90 days have passed since you signed up. You can check your Google Cloud expenditure and remaining days in Billing Overview: Figure 3.7 – Free trial credit status in the Billing Overview section Please note that the initial $300 is converted into…
Free trial – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Google Cloud offers a 90-day, $300-worth free trial for every newly created Google Cloud account. Once registered, $300 worth of credits is added to the bill, which can be used with all products. During the free trial period, resources used from the Free Tier do not get charged against your free trial credits: Figure 3.3…
Local SSDs – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
A local SSD is an ephemeral, locally attached form of block storage for VMs and containers. Compared to other block storage options, it offers superior performance, very high IOPS, and very low latency. The typical use cases for local SSDs are flash-optimized databases, hot caching layers for analytics, or application scratch disks. Google Cloud Storage…
Planning database resources – Google Associate Cloud Engineer Cert
Similar to compute options, Google Cloud offers a variety of database products in which you can store the data. Each product has its unique features and can support various application options: This concludes our discussion of the database options in Google Cloud and when you should choose a specific database for your workload. In the…