Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this book

About the cover illustration

1. Getting started

Chapter 1. What is “cloud”?

1.1. What is Google Cloud Platform?

1.2. Why cloud?

1.2.1. Why not cloud?

1.3. What to expect from cloud services

1.3.1. Computing

1.3.2. Storage

1.3.3. Analytics (aka, Big Data)

1.3.4. Networking

1.3.5. Pricing

1.4. Building an application for the cloud

1.4.1. What is a cloud application?

1.4.2. Example: serving photos

1.4.3. Example projects

1.5. Getting started with Google Cloud Platform

1.5.1. Signing up for GCP

1.5.2. Exploring the console

1.5.3. Understanding projects

1.5.4. Installing the SDK

1.6. Interacting with GCP

1.6.1. In the browser: the Cloud Console

1.6.2. On the command line: gcloud

1.6.3. In your own code: google-cloud-*

Summary

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