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