Google Cloud Platform in Action

Great book for GCP

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

Good overview of GC

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.