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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Google Cloud offers a variety of compute options to choose from. Ultimately, it depends on what kind of workload you will run and what type of control over the resources you or your team require. The following figure provides an overview of the Google Cloud compute options. The more we move to the right, the…

Best practices are a set of methods or techniques that have been generally accepted as superior to other alternatives. Best practices are called this because the outcome that is produced by using them is better than those produced by using other methods. A best practice may be a feature of accredited management standards such as…

Welcome to the third chapter. In this chapter, we will focus on planning and managing GCP resources. Our focus lies mainly on planning Google Cloud resources, describing use cases for specific solutions, and learning what the benefits of the different application types are. We will dive into billing and budgets, which are essential in terms…

For those who are familiar with Kubernetes and would like to manage Google Cloud resources the Kubernetes way, Google Cloud offers the Config Connector tool. It is very similar to managing Kubernetes resources in the YAML format. Config Connector provides a collection of Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinitions (CRDs) and controllers, which eventually reconcile your environment with your…

There is no one right or wrong way to use Google Cloud services. Every customer or company has a different way of using Google Cloud and all of them are good. Developers use the cloud via API calls or code execution and security officers might simply use the Google Cloud console from the browser. In…