Google Cloud
Google Cloud is Google's public cloud computing platform, providing infrastructure, platform, and managed services for building and operating applications.
Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, Second Edition
Google Cloud is a public cloud platform providing hosted computing, storage, networking, and application services.
- How it is used
- Deploys containerized jobs and web applications through Cloud Run and Artifact Registry.
- How deep it goes
- Walks through project setup, image publishing, deployment, execution, logging, and service verification.
- Examples
- Uses hello-cloud and pi-web containers as Cloud Run jobs and web services.
- What you can do after
- Operate Google Cloud with gcloud, publish Docker images, deploy Cloud Run workloads, and inspect their results.
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Machine Learning for Tabular Data: XGBoost, Deep Learning, and AI
Google Cloud is a cloud-computing platform providing infrastructure and managed services for applications, data, and machine learning.
- How it is used
- Deploys trained models and applications while addressing storage, endpoints, monitoring, retraining, uptime, and access management.
- How deep it goes
- Works through project setup, billing, storage, interfaces, and Vertex AI deployment, while deferring advanced retraining features.
- Examples
- Uses a Kuala Lumpur real-estate predictor, a local web application, a storage bucket, and a Vertex AI endpoint.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure a Google Cloud project, storage bucket, console, and Vertex AI endpoint for model deployment.
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Related concepts
- AWSalternative to · Amazon Web Services (AWS) is Amazon's public cloud computing platform, providing on-demand infrastructure and managed services over the internet.
- cloud computingkind of · Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of computing resources and services over a network from remotely managed infrastructure.
- cloud providerkind of · A cloud provider is an organization that delivers computing resources, platforms, or managed services over a network, typically on demand.
- Crossplane providerused by · A Crossplane provider is a Crossplane controller package that observes Kubernetes resources and manages corresponding resources in an external infrastructure system.
- Gemini for Google Cloudhas part · Gemini for Google Cloud is Google Cloud's generative-AI assistance and development capabilities based on Gemini models.
- Dockeruses · Docker is a platform and ecosystem for building, distributing, and running applications in containers.
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