List of Figures

 

Chapter 1. What is “cloud”?

Figure 1.1. Steady growth in resource consumption

Figure 1.2. Unexpected pattern of resource consumption

Figure 1.3. Serving photos dynamically through your web server

Figure 1.4. Serving photos statically through your web server

Figure 1.5. Serving photos statically through Google Cloud Storage

Figure 1.6. Google Cloud Platform

Figure 1.7. Google Cloud Platform free trial

Figure 1.8. Google Cloud Console

Figure 1.9. Google Cloud Console, where you can create a new virtual machine

Figure 1.10. Form where you define your virtual machine

Figure 1.11. The listing of your VM instances

Chapter 2. Trying it out: deploying WordPress on Google Cloud

Figure 2.1. Flow of a future request to a VM running WordPress

Figure 2.2. Flow of a request involving Google Cloud Storage

Figure 2.3. Prompt to create a new Cloud SQL instance

Figure 2.4. Form to create a new Cloud SQL instance

Figure 2.5. Configuring access to the Cloud SQL instance

Figure 2.6. Creating a new VM instance

Figure 2.7. WordPress is up and running.

Figure 2.8. Updating the access configuration for Cloud SQL

Figure 2.9. Deleting the VM when we’re finished

Chapter 3. The cloud data center

Figure 3.1. A Google data center

Figure 3.2. Cities where Google Cloud has data centers and how many in each city (white balloons indicate “on the way” at the time of this writing.)

Figure 3.3. Latencies between different cities and data centers

Figure 3.4. A comparison of regions and zones