ALEXIS MOUSSINE-POUCHKINE: So you're
new to Google Cloud Platform.
Maybe you would like to simply check out GCP's breadth,
deploy some application of yours,
or learn about Google Cloud's big data and machine learning
capabilities.
In any case, welcome.
Let me show you around.
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So first things first, cloud.google.com
is your starting point.
This is where you will find all the product
information and documentation, but also detailed solutions
with architectures and code with many different use cases.
Pricing is also detailed there, including Google's pricing
principles and a detailed cost calculator for every GCP
product and service.
Cloud.google.com is also the place to access support,
to read customer stories, to find partners,
and to understand how Google Cloud
Platform is different from other public clouds.
The Google Cloud Console is where you will likely
spend a fair amount of time exploring and using
the platform.
This is where you configure building accounts,
create and manage projects, and manage all your GCP
resources, regardless of their data center location.
Every product and every service has its own section
in the console left-hand menu, with dashboards,
detailed configurations, and settings.
You will also find interactive quick start experiences
from right inside the console.
Take this example quick start for Compute Engine.
Simply walk through the various steps of the tutorial,
and within minutes, you'll be running a Node.js application
with its back end on Compute Engine virtual machines.
The Cloud Console also offers a marketplace
with ready-to-go software stacks to accelerate development,
so you spend less time installing
and more time developing.
This allows you to deploy production-grade solutions
in a few clicks with a single bill for all
your GCP and third-party costs, and it also
offers direct access to partner support.
To make sure you set up your employees up
with the right permissions to use different GCP resources,
Cloud Console also integrates Identity and Access Management,
or Cloud IAM, and provides a unified view
into security policy across your entire organization.
This is also where you would manage quotas
across the platform.
Every product comes with one or more usage limits
across the platform, so you can prevent one team
from spending the entire [INAUDIBLE] budget
on a rote query or compute job.
If you'd like, you may even use our iOS and Android mobile apps
to monitor and manage your GCP applications on the go.
Finally, one can sign up for affordable support
for both development and production phases right
from the console.
This role-based support enables configuration
on a per-user basis, and case management
is integrated into Cloud Console.
While the console is powerful and flexible,
you can do everything from the command line.
For every action in the console, there is a gcloud equivalent.
gcloud is our scriptable and almighty CLI,
and it comes with the Google Cloud SDK.
Cloud Shell is a shell environment
hosted on Google Cloud Platform for managing your projects
and resources.
It is accessible from a simple web browser
and is powered by a small virtual machine
with persistent disk and up-to-date software
for all your development needs.
It even comes with a web code editor.
If you'd like to know more about developer tools,
check out the video linked in the description below.
Before you can use GCP Cloud Console,
you will need a Google account.
You can create a new Google account
or use an existing one, such as your Gmail account.
We recommend that you enable billing for your project,
and that you sign up for our free trial.
If you do not enable billing, you
will not be able to use GCP products
beyond their free tier.
If you do not sign up for the free trial,
or if you're not eligible, you can still
benefit from that GCP generous always free tier.
You will find more details about the free tier and free trial
in an upcoming video.
Once logged into the GCP Console,
I would recommend that you check out the main menu,
and in particular, the Getting Started section.
Start with a short tour of the platform tutorial.
In a few minutes, you will get a good sense
of how to get the best out of Cloud Console.
Next, scroll to Interactive Tutorials,
and take a short hands-on lab for the topic of your choice
without leaving the console.
Finally, check out the main categories product
GCP has to offer--
compute, storage, networking, Stackdriver
for everything DevOps, tools, big data,
and artificial intelligence.
As you progress through your discovery of GCP,
keep in mind those key resources--
documentation, in-depth tutorials, support, training,
and free code labs.
GCP can be overwhelming at first.
But with this small guidance, we hope
that you are now confident that your best ideas can
come to life in the cloud.
We're certainly excited to see what you build
and look forward to your feedback.
If you like this video, please like, subscribe, comment,
share, and look forward to more GCP Essentials videos.
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