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Dr. Logan Song
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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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Google Cloud compute

We learned about EC2 instances in Chapter 1, which was about Amazon cloud compute services. Switching to Google Cloud, we will first discuss GCE VMs, which are like the EC2 instances in AWS, and then GKE, which was originally developed at Google and released as open source in 2014.

Google Compute Engine

GCE offers VMs running in Google’s cloud as a computing resource. Just like provisioning an AWS EC2 instance, we need to make choices about the computer hardware and software when provisioning a GCE VM in Google Cloud. Let us go to the Google Cloud console, provision a GCE instance, and add some cloud storage to it:

  1. Log in to the Google Cloud console.
  2. Go to the Google Cloud console: https://console.cloud.google.com. As we mentioned in an earlier section, each GCP resource belongs to a project, so you need to create a project first:
Figure 8.3 – Google Cloud console welcome page

Figure 8.3 – Google Cloud console welcome page

Once a project is created...

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Dr. Logan Song

Dr. Logan Song is the enterprise cloud director and chief cloud architect at Dito. With 25+ years of professional experience, Dr. Song is highly skilled in enterprise information technologies, specializing in cloud computing and machine learning. He is a Google Cloud-certified professional solution architect and machine learning engineer, an AWS-certified professional solution architect and machine learning specialist, and a Microsoft-certified Azure solution architect expert. Dr. Song holds a Ph.D. in industrial engineering, an MS in computer science, and an ME in management engineering. Currently, he is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas, teaching cloud computing and machine learning courses.
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