Application Default Credentials (ADC) is a strategy used by the authentication libraries to automatically find credentials based on the application environment. If you are using API keys, then you don’t need to set up ADC

Service accounts are needed for scenarios where a workload, such as a custom application, needs to access Google Cloud resources or perform actions. After your VM is configured to use the service account, applications can then use the service account to authenticate. The most common method is to authenticate by using Application Default Credentials and…

Certain Google API based managed services do not use VPC Networks. They use public service endpoints that specifies the network address of an API service. VM instances that have no external IP addresses can use Private Google Access to reach external IP addresses of Google APIs and services. For example: You enable Private Google Access…

Google Cloud introduced Service Directory, a fully managed cloud service conceived as a single place to publish, discover, and connect services regardless of their environment Service Directory use the following components: Clients that want to discover, publish, and manage services inside Service Directory can use the following methods to interact with its API: ADD ENDPOINT…

A high-level overview of how you could decide on the most suitable platform for your application.

The gcloud container command group lets you create and manage Google Kubernetes Engine containers and clusters. Create cluster Connect and apply yaml file: Show the running pods: Show all the deployments:

Split traffic across two or more revision:

Google Cloud’s HTTP(S) load balancing provides global load balancing for HTTP(S) requests destined for your instances. This means that your applications are available to your customers at a single anycast IP address, which simplifies your DNS setup. HTTP(S) load balancing balances HTTP and HTTPS traffic across multiple backend instances and across multiple regions. HTTP requests…

Pub/Sub is an asynchronous global messaging service. There are three terms in Pub/Sub that appear often: topics, publishing, and subscribing. A topic is a shared string that allows applications to connect with one another through a common thread. Publishers push (or publish) a message to a Pub/Sub topic. Subscribers will then make a subscription to…