Google Cloud Platform in Action

This book is basically some high-level marketing material for the Google cloud platform. Sure, there are some examples here and there, but unless you happen to be doing the exact thing the the example covers, then this book is not much help in actually implementing a non-trivial system in the Google cloud. Given the book's title containing the phrase "In Action", this is misleading.The trouble is that the Google cloud is simply too big of a platform to try to cover the technical aspects in one book. Unless your book is 2000 pages, it's just not going to hit all the meaty bits. Consider that this book makes virtually no mention of VPC networks, which is the primary networking infrastructure that you will need to design to deploy a cloud implementation. How does this book skip VPC networks?To fulfill the promise of the title of this book, you really need 3 books, and then readers can buy the book(s) that they need. For each Google system, (e.g. VPN networks), start with the theory behind the design, and then get to the real-world implementation of typical use-cases. This book does not successfully do that for the key topics in Google cloud.

Really enjoyed a book!

Great book for GCP

Good overview of GC

I work with GCP every day and this is an excellent intro to its products.

I had been offered some free Google cloud credits by Google, but I really did not understand their Google cloud offerings. This is a really well written book, that romps through all the major Google cloud services. I am now comfortable spinning up VM machines in the cloud, setting up persistent storage, and getting introduced to the exciting world of kubernetes. Very well recommended like a few other 'in Action' books in the series : Kubernetes in Action, Unity in Action and AWS in Action.

Voila le sujet était ambitieux : trop. C'est une bonne intro qui s'adresse plutôt au chef de projet et qui a le merite de bien détailler le coût des services (Pas sûr du coup que le livre soit encore valable l'an prochain). Par contre c'est très verbeux et peu synthétique. Du coup on s'ennuie pas mal ....

This book is really hard to read because the author does not introduce properly concepts or software that are used on the Google Cloud. It is full of technical jargon. Not useful in anyway.

Contiene todos los topics necesarios para adentrarse al mundo de GCP

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