Google Cloud

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that is provided by Google. It includes a range of infrastructure, platform, and software services that enable organizations to build, deploy, and run applications and websites on Google's infrastructure.

Google Cloud offers a range of services for computing, storage, networking, data analytics, machine learning, security, and application development. It allows organizations to access Google's infrastructure and technology through a pay-as-you-go pricing model, without the need to invest in and maintain their own physical servers and other infrastructure.

Google Cloud can be used to host and run applications, store and analyze data, and develop and train machine learning models, among other use cases.

Products

IAM

Google Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a security service provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that allows you to manage access to your cloud resources. IAM enables you to create and manage Google Cloud users and groups, and to use permissions to allow and deny access to your cloud resources.

With IAM, you can create and manage Google Cloud users and groups, and you can use policies to specify which resources each user or group can access and what actions they can perform on those resources. IAM also provides a number of features to help you manage access to your cloud resources, such as support for fine-grained access controls, integration with Google Cloud Directory Sync to help you manage user identities and access, and support for Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy to help you control access to your applications.

IAM is an important part of the security foundation of GCP, and it is a central part of the GCP shared responsibility model. IAM enables you to securely control access to your cloud resources, while GCP is responsible for the security of the underlying infrastructure that supports those resources.

Cloud Run

Google Cloud Run is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy and run containerized applications on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Cloud Run, you can build and deploy your applications using familiar tools and frameworks, such as Docker and Kubernetes, and Cloud Run will automatically handle the underlying infrastructure and scaling.

Cloud Run is designed to be easy to use and highly scalable, and it offers a variety of features to help you customize and control your application deployment. For example, you can use Cloud Run to define the desired scaling behavior of your application, and Cloud Run will automatically scale the number of instances of your application up or down to meet the defined scaling rules. You can also use Cloud Run to define custom domains and TLS certificates for your application, and to set up integration with other GCP services, such as Google Cloud Storage and Google BigQuery.

Artifact Registry

Google Artifact Registry is a fully managed service that makes it easy to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images and other package types on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). With Artifact Registry, you can store and manage your container images and packages in a secure and scalable manner, and you can easily deploy them to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or any other cloud or on-premises environment that supports Docker containers.

Artifact Registry is integrated with other GCP services, such as GKE and Cloud Build, and it offers a variety of features to help you manage your container images and packages. For example, Artifact Registry provides automatic image scanning and vulnerability detection to help you ensure the security of your images, and it also offers integration with Cloud Build and Cloud Source Repositories to help you automate the build and release process for your images.

Cloud Storage

Google Cloud Storage is a fully managed, cloud-based storage service provided by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). It is designed to store and manage a wide range of data types, including structured and unstructured data, and to provide fast and reliable access to that data.

With Cloud Storage, you can store and access your data from anywhere, using a variety of tools and APIs, and you can also use Cloud Storage to store and serve static content, such as images and videos. Cloud Storage is highly scalable and durable, and it offers a number of features to help you customize and control your storage configuration, such as support for multiple storage classes, integration with other GCP services, such as BigQuery and Cloud Functions, and support for custom metadata and access controls.

In addition to its core storage capabilities, Cloud Storage also offers a number of other features to help you manage and optimize your data, such as integration with Cloud Dataproc and Cloud Data Fusion to help you process and analyze your data, and support for data archiving and disaster recovery.

Cloud SQL

Google Cloud SQL is a fully managed database service provided by Google Cloud Platform ( GCP). It is designed to make it easy to set up, maintain, manage, and administer a cloud-based MySQL or PostgreSQL database.

With Cloud SQL, you can create and manage your databases using a simple web-based interface or through a variety of APIs and command-line tools, and you can also use Cloud SQL to migrate your existing MySQL or PostgreSQL databases to the cloud. Cloud SQL is highly scalable and secure, and it offers a number of features to help you customize and control your database configuration, such as support for multiple database instances, integration with other GCP services, such as Cloud Load Balancing and Cloud Functions, and support for custom configurations and parameters.

In addition to its core database capabilities, Cloud SQL also offers a number of other features to help you manage and optimize your databases, such as integration with Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging to help you monitor and debug your databases, and support for data backup and recovery.

reCAPTCHA

Google reCAPTCHA is an API provided by Google that helps protect websites from spam and abuse by detecting and blocking automated traffic. reCAPTCHA uses a variety of techniques to determine whether a user is a human or a bot, including analyzing the user's behavior, IP address, and other factors.

To use reCAPTCHA, you can add a JavaScript widget to your website that displays a CAPTCHA challenge to users. When a user completes the challenge, reCAPTCHA sends a request to Google's servers to verify the user's response. If the response is determined to be valid, reCAPTCHA allows the user's request to proceed. If the response is determined to be invalid, reCAPTCHA blocks the user's request and may display a different CAPTCHA challenge.

reCAPTCHA offers a number of features to help you customize and control your CAPTCHA challenges, including support for multiple languages, customization of the challenge theme and appearance, and integration with other Google services, such as Google Analytics.

Installation

To install the Google Cloud Command Line Interface (CLI), also known as gcloud, follow the directions to Install the Google Cloud CLI. The Google Cloud CLI is available for Windows, macOS and Linux environments.