GCP Terms Flashcards
Object storage service
Stores blob/unstructured data
Has regional storage capabilities
Nearline, coldline and archive data storage abilities
Cloud Storage
Data processing service
Dataflow
Data warehouse for analytics
Compute power provisioned behind the scenes
Serverless
BigQuery
Business Intelligence platform
Sits on top of an analytics database
Looker
Delivers highly personalized product recommendations at scale
Recommendations AI
Uses AI to unlock insights from documents
Document AI
Hosted repository of plug-and-play AI components
AI Hub
Uses AI with job search and talent acquisition capabilities
Cloud Talent Solution
Helps migrate and run virtual machines in Google Cloud with minimal changes to the VM architecture
VMware Engine
Allows organizations to build an application once and run it anywhere (on-premises and in the public cloud)
Anthos
APIs can create new business value by connecting legacy systems with new software
Benefits of APIs
Employees only have access to the cloud resources necessary for their job
Least Privilege Resource Access Model
DevOps Objectives
- Reduces silos
- Accept failure as normal
- Implement gradual change
- Leverage tooling and automation
- Measure everything (measure success)
SRE Best Practices
- Establish shared ownership of production (define SLOs, calculate error budgets, determine reliability and order work priorities)
- Iterative collaborative culture - lessons learned discussions
- Reduce cost of failure by rolling out changes to a small percentage of users first
- Increase efficiency through toil automation
- Track everything related to toil, reliability and system health
SRE
Site reliability engineering