In this article, we’ll explore Google Cloud (one of the top three cloud providers) and discover its powerful tools and services. Let's dive in!

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Detailed Guide on Google Cloud

<h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Introduction</span></h2><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Ever wonder how your favorite apps run so smoothly? Welcome to the world of cloud computing, which is revolutionizing business operations by making processes more efficient and scalable.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The cloud computing market is expected to be worth</span><a href="https://spacelift.io/blog/cloud-computing-statistics#:~:text=By%202026%2C%20the%20cloud%20computing%20market%20is%20forecast%20to%20be%20worth%20%24947.3%20billion."><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><u> $947.3 billion by 2026</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">.&nbsp;</span></p><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">What is Google Cloud?</span></h2><p><a href="https://cloud.google.com/"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><u>Google Cloud</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> is comprised of multiple services available over the Internet. These services accelerate an organization’s ability to go digital. Cloud computing is all about using hosted services, such as&nbsp;<i>servers</i>,&nbsp;<i>data storage, networking, databases,</i> and&nbsp;<i>software&nbsp;</i>over the internet. So, you’re getting things done using Google’s computers while using Google Cloud.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It lets you build and host applications, store data, and analyze data, all in Google's highly scalable and reliable computing infrastructure. Google's data centers are located worldwide (<i>regions include&nbsp;Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East, Europe, South America, and&nbsp;North America</i>). They provide a</span><a href="https://cloud.google.com/products"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">&nbsp;<u>list of Google cloud services</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> (<i>the list keeps growing</i>).</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Google shares these computing resources with developers through Google Cloud. It helps developers build and run applications using Google’s infrastructure. Moreover, the multiple products offered by Google Cloud are seamlessly integrated to suit your use case.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Let’s suppose you are building a new social networking site for dogs! You could start by storing profile photos in Cloud Storage. Then, you can store other profile information (<i>locations, dog names, and hobbies</i>) using the Cloud Firestore database.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Next, you could use Vision AI to detect objects in each photo, like balls, stuffed animals, and bones. These ML-powered data insights might help you find other furry friends.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">The final step is deploying the application on the web using Cloud Run. This helps with app scalability and gaining more users.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">How to Use the Google Cloud Free Program?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">There are three ways to</span><a href="https://cloud.google.com/free"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><u>&nbsp;get started with Google&nbsp;Cloud for free</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"> which would be discussed below.&nbsp;</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">$300 free credits for new customers</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">New customer? Grab their $300 free credits to try Google Cloud products. It will help you build a proof of concept with zero charges until you activate a fully paid plan.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Deploying pre-built solutions with $300 free credits</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">You can also deploy Google’s pre-built solutions with the free $300 credit you get. So, you can deploy solutions for free, such as a load-balanced VM, a dynamic website, a three-tier web app, and more.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">20+ products with free tier</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">You can use&nbsp;<i>AI APIs</i>,&nbsp;<i>Compute Engine</i>,&nbsp;<i>Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Build, Cloud Run, Firestore, Vision AI, Workflows, Cloud Shell</i>,&nbsp;<i>Secret Manager, BigQuery,</i> and</span><a href="https://cloud.google.com/free?hl=en#:~:text=300%20free%20credit.-,Free%20Tier%20products,-There%20is%20no"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">&nbsp;<u>other popular products for free up to certain monthly limits</u></span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">. This won't count against your&nbsp;$300 free credit.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">What are Google Cloud Resources?</span></h2><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Google Cloud resources are the fundamental components that make up Google Cloud Services. These may include&nbsp;<i>Compute Engine Virtual Machines, Cloud Storage Buckets, Cloud SQL Databases</i>, and more.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">These resources are organized hierarchically using&nbsp;<i>projects&nbsp;</i>and&nbsp;<i>folders</i>. Projects are how you group resources and are at the first level of the hierarchy. All resources should relate to one project.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">So, a given compute engine virtual machine or a cloud storage bucket would belong to one project. Optionally, projects can belong to organizations that provide centralized visibility and control across all projects in a given organization.&nbsp;</span></p><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">An organization helps your company or group administrators manage billing or security across many projects. You can further organize your company’s departments or teams into&nbsp;<i>folders</i>. Folders can contain projects and subfolders for further structure and nesting.&nbsp;</span></p><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Featured Google Cloud Products</span></h2><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Compute Engine</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It helps create and run online virtual machines using Google’s reliable cloud infrastructure. You can select the right machine from predefined or custom machine types.&nbsp;</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud Storage</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It helps you store objects while optimizing the performance of your apps. Google Cloud Storage is a global, secure, and scalable object or blob store for mutable, unstructured data, such as images, videos, and documents.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">BigQuery</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It is Google’s enterprise data warehouse that was designed to make large-scale data analysis accessible to everyone. It helps you get valuable insights from your data with ease.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud Run</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It brings serverless agility to your containerized apps. You can use Cloud Run to deploy any stateless HTTP container. This lets you write your code in your favorite language with the framework or binary library that works for you.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Google Kubernetes Engine</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It helps you modernize your existing application. Google Kubernetes Engine (aka GKE) is an enterprise-grade platform for stateful and stateless containerized apps.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Vertex AI</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It provides tools for every step of the machine learning workflow across different model types for varying levels of machine learning expertise. So, you get a simplified machine-learning workflow in one central place.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Looker</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It acts as a Google for your business data. The easy-to-use Looker Studio tools allow you to explore, analyze, and visualize information. Google’s cloud-first infrastructure, foundational AI, industry-leading APIs, and flexible semantic layer deliver BI solutions.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Apigee API Management</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It helps organizations create digital experiences for older back-end services, microservices, hybrid or multi-cloud environments, and fully serverless stacks.&nbsp;</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud SQL</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud SQL is a fully managed, relational database service from MySQL, Postgre, or SQL Server on Google Cloud. It lets you automate mundane, time-consuming tasks like patches, updates, backups, and replicas.&nbsp;</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Gemini&nbsp;</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">It is an AI-powered assistant for developers to accelerate software development, application lifecycle, security, data analytics, and databases.</span></p><h3><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud CDN</span></h3><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Cloud CDN is a content delivery network that accelerates your web and video content delivery by using Google’s Global Edge Network to bring content as close to the user as possible.&nbsp;</span></p><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Pricing of Google Cloud</span></h2><figure class="table"><table><thead><tr><th>Service</th><th>Pricing</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Compute Engine</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- e2-micro instance</td><td>Free tier: 2 vCPUs, 1 GB RAM, $0.01/hour (after free tier)</td></tr><tr><td>- n1-standard-1 instance</td><td>$0.0475/hour (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>- n2-standard-2 instance</td><td>$0.0950/hour (2 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Storage</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Standard storage</td><td>$0.020 per GB per month</td></tr><tr><td>- Nearline storage</td><td>$0.010 per GB per month</td></tr><tr><td>- Coldline storage</td><td>$0.004 per GB per month</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud SQL</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- MySQL/PostgreSQL</td><td>$0.0150/hour (db-f1-micro instance, 0.2 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>- SQL Server</td><td>$0.6710/hour (db-custom-2-4096 instance, 2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>Kubernetes Engine</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Standard cluster</td><td>$0.10 per cluster per hour</td></tr><tr><td>BigQuery</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Storage</td><td>$0.02 per GB per month</td></tr><tr><td>- Query</td><td>$5.00 per TB processed</td></tr><tr><td>App Engine</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Standard environment</td><td>$0.05 per instance-hour (F1 instance, 0.6 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>- Flexible environment</td><td>$0.052 per instance-hour (F1 instance, 1 vCPU, 0.6 GB RAM)</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Functions</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Invocations</td><td>First 2 million free, $0.40 per million after</td></tr><tr><td>- Compute time</td><td>$0.0000025 per 100 ms</td></tr><tr><td>Cloud Run</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- CPU</td><td>$0.000024 per vCPU-second</td></tr><tr><td>- Memory</td><td>$0.0000025 per GB-second</td></tr><tr><td>Network</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Egress to North America</td><td>$0.12 per GB</td></tr><tr><td>- Egress to Europe/Asia</td><td>$0.12 per GB (first 10 TB), $0.11 per GB (next 40 TB), $0.08 per GB (next 100 TB), $0.05 per GB (over 150 TB)</td></tr><tr><td>Operations Suite</td><td>&nbsp;</td></tr><tr><td>- Monitoring</td><td>$0.2580 per GiB of logs ingested</td></tr><tr><td>- Logging</td><td>Free up to 50 GiB per month, $0.50 per GiB after</td></tr></tbody></table></figure><h2>Useful commands of Google Cloud</h2><figure class="table"><table><thead><tr><th><strong>Command</strong></th><th><strong>Description</strong></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud init</code></pre></td><td>Initialize, authorize, and configure the Google Cloud CLI.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud auth login</code></pre></td><td>Authorize gcloud to access Google Cloud resources.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID</code></pre></td><td>Set the default project for Google Cloud commands.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud projects list</code></pre></td><td>List all Google Cloud projects associated with the user.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud compute instances list</code></pre></td><td>List all VM instances in the specified project and zone.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud compute instances create INSTANCE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new VM instance.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud compute ssh INSTANCE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>SSH into a VM instance.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud compute instances delete INSTANCE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Delete a VM instance.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud container clusters list</code></pre></td><td>List all Kubernetes clusters in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud container clusters create CLUSTER_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new Kubernetes cluster.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud container clusters delete CLUSTER_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Delete a Kubernetes cluster.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud sql instances list</code></pre></td><td>List all Cloud SQL instances in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud sql instances create INSTANCE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new Cloud SQL instance.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud sql instances delete INSTANCE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Delete a Cloud SQL instance.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud functions deploy FUNCTION_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Deploy a Google Cloud Function.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud functions logs read FUNCTION_NAME</code></pre></td><td>View logs for a Google Cloud Function.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud pubsub topics list</code></pre></td><td>List all Pub/Sub topics in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud pubsub subscriptions list</code></pre></td><td>List all Pub/Sub subscriptions.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud pubsub topics create TOPIC_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new Pub/Sub topic.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud iam roles list</code></pre></td><td>List all IAM roles available in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud iam service-accounts create SA_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new service account.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud iam roles delete ROLE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Delete an IAM role.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud app deploy</code></pre></td><td>Deploy an app to Google App Engine.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud app browse</code></pre></td><td>Open the deployed app in a web browser.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud firestore databases create</code></pre></td><td>Create a new Firestore database.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud firestore databases list</code></pre></td><td>List all Firestore databases.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud bigquery datasets list</code></pre></td><td>List all BigQuery datasets in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud bigquery datasets create DATASET_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Create a new BigQuery dataset.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud logging logs list</code></pre></td><td>List all logs in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud logging read LOG_NAME</code></pre></td><td>Read log entries from a specific log.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud billing accounts list</code></pre></td><td>List all billing accounts associated with the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud billing projects link PROJECT_ID</code></pre></td><td>Link a project to a billing account.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud dns managed-zones list</code></pre></td><td>List all managed DNS zones in the project.</td></tr><tr><td><pre><code class="language-plaintext">gcloud dns record-sets list --zone=ZONE_NAME</code></pre></td><td>List all DNS records in a specific managed zone.</td></tr></tbody></table></figure><h2>Calculate Pricing as per your need</h2><div class="raw-html-embed"><iframe src="https://devopsden.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/cloud_pricing_calculator/azure.html" width="100%" height="400" style="border:none;"></iframe>
</div><h2><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Conclusion</span></h2><p><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">Coming to an end you must be well aware of the foundational basis of Google Cloud and its associated products by now. Whether you want to enhance your infrastructure, streamline your operations, or innovate your offerings, Google Cloud has something powerful in store (<i>especially for developers!</i>).</span></p><p>Read More</p><p><a href="https://devopsden.io/article/what-is-microsoft-azure-active-directory">https://devopsden.io/article/what-is-microsoft-azure-active-directory</a></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Follow us on</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/devopsden/">https://www.linkedin.com/company/devopsden/</a></p>

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