Google Cloud Platform for Free

A Brief Tour for the Uncommon Developer

A talk on the free tier of Google Cloud Platform geared towards developers

Resources:
https://cloud.google.com/free
https://github.com/davezen1/cloud-functions-feedback

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1. Consulting Proposal Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
2. Google Cloud Platform For Free A Brief Tour for the Uncommon Developer For Devs For Free For Side Projects For Real
3. David Hodge Independent Cloud Consultant Google Certified Professional Cloud Architect
4. Brief Tour of Free GCP Compute • Cloud Functions • AppEngine • Run Storage • Firestore • Cloud Storage Special • Firebase Data Analytics • Big Query • Pub/Sub Management and Developer Tools • Stackdriver • Cloud Build • Cloud Deployment Manager AI Machine Learning • AutoML
5. Sign Up
6. Compute App Engine Cloud Functions Cloud Run Run One Thing Run Many Things Run Any Thing
7. Compute Comparison • App Engine - minimal ops for web applications • Cloud Functions - simple APIs • Cloud Run - containers, flexibility • Scale to zero
8. App Engine • Serverless before Serverless - PAAS • Minimal Ops • Java, PHP, Node, Python, C#, .Net, Ruby, Go • Standard / Flexible Environments • Traffic Splitting - A/B Testing, incremental rollouts • Application Versioning - dev, test, staging, production • “F” frontend 28 instance hours per day • “B” backend 9 instance hours per day
9. Cloud Functions • Simple Event Driven • Not Much Ops • Pay for what you use • Ergonomics • Free Tier 2 million invocations & 1 million seconds compute time/month
10. Cloud Run • No Ops with Stateless Containers • Run any lang, library, binary • 2 million requests per month • Pay for what you run
11. Firestore • NoSQL Document Database (ACID Supported) • For mobile, web, IoT - syncs • Live sync - near real time • Offline support • 1 GB Storage • 50,000 reads, 20,000 writes, 20,000 deletes per day
12. Cloud Storage • Buckets of Data • Raw intermediate storage • Object Versioning, Lifecycle, Retention • For Data Lake, Media, Backups • 5 GB
13. Pub/Sub • Real Time, ReliableMessaging, think Kafka • At-least-once • Exactly-once • Seek and Replay • 10 GB messages per month
15. Big Query • Fully managed analytics data warehouse • SQL • Command Line or Web UI • Real time predictive analytics • Machine Learning • Public Datasets - Free Storage • 1 TB queries per month • 10 GB storage
16. Management Tools Developer Tools • Cloud Build - 120 Minutes per day ◦ GitHub, BitBucket, Cloud Source Repos ◦ Build Steps using YML, JSON • Cloud Deployment Manager - 1,000 API write requests per day ◦ Templates for repeatable deployment processes • Stackdriver ◦ 50 GB logs with 30 day retention, basic email alerting ◦ Monitoring ,logging, diagnostics for GCP and AWS
17. Auto ML • AutoML Vision Classification • AutoML Natural Language • AutoML Translation • AutoML Video Intelligence • AutoML Tables
18. Firebase • Authentication - Facebook, Google, Twitter, Email/Password • Hosting - Free SSL Certs • Realtime Database - Original • Cloud Firestore • Firebase Pricing
20. Thank you. David Hodge @davezen1