16 - Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform - Interacting with Google Cloud Platform

Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform - Interacting with Google Cloud Platform:
1. Cloud Platform Console
2. Cloud Shell and Cloud SDK
3. Cloud Console Mobile App
4. REST-based API

Google Cloud Platform Console:
1. Centralized console for all project data
2. Developer tools
a. Cloud Source Repositories
b. Cloud Shell
c. Test Lab (mobile app testing)
3. Access to product APIs
4. Manage and create projects

Google Cloud SDK:
1. SDK includes CLI tools for Cloud Platfor products and services
gcloud, gsutil (Cloud Storage), bq (BigQuery)

2. Available as Docker image
3. Available via Cloud Shell
Containerized version of Cloud SDK running on Compute Engine instance

Cloud Shell provides the following:
1. A temporary Compute Engine virtual machine instance running a Debian-based Linux operating system
2. Command-line access to the instance from a web browser using terminal windows in the Cloud Platform Console
3. 5 GB of persistent disk storage per user, mounted as your $HOM E directory in Cloud Shell sessions across projects and instances
4. Google Cloud SDK and other tools pre-installed on the Compute Engine instance
5. Language support, including SDKs, libraries, runtime environments and compilers for Java, Go, Python, Node.js, PHP and Ruby
6. Web preview functionality, which allows you to preview web applications running on the Cloud Shell instance through a secure proxy
7. Built-in authorization for access to projects and resources

You can use Cloud Shell to:
1. Create and manage Google Compute Engine instances.
2. Create and access Google Cloud SQL databases.
3. Manage Google Cloud Storage data.
4. Interact with hosted or remote Git repositories, including Google Cloud Source Repositories.
5. Build and deploy Google App Engine applications.

RESTful APIs
1. Programmatic access to products and services
a. Typically use JSON as an interchange format
b. Use OAuth 2.0 for authentication and authorization
2. Enabled through the Google Cloud Platform Console
3. To help you control spend, most include daily quotas and rates (limits)
a. Quotas and rates can be raised by request

Use APIs Explorer to help you write your code
1. The APIs Explorer is an interactive tool that lets you easily try Google
2. APIs using a browser.
3. With the APIs Explorer, you can:
a) Browse quickly through available APIs and versions.
b) See methods available for each API and what parameters they support along with inline documentation.
c) Execute requests for any method and see responses in real time.
d) Easily make authenticated and authorized API calls.

Use APIs Explorer to help you write your code
1. The APIs Explorer is an interactive tool that lets you easily try Google
2. APIs using a browser.
3. With the APIs Explorer, you can:
a) Browse quickly through available APIs and versions.
b) See methods available for each API and what parameters they support along with inline documentation.
c) Execute requests for any method and see responses in real time.
d) Easily make authenticated and authorized API calls.

Use client libraries to control GCP resources from within your code
1. Cloud Client Libraries
a) Community-owned, hand-crafted client libraries
2. Google API Client Libraries
a) Open source, generated
b) Support various languages
I) Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, Go, Node.js, Ruby, Objective-C, Dart

Cloud Console Mobile App:
1. Manage virtual machines and database instances
2. Manage apps in Google App Engine
3. Manage your billing
4. Visualize your projects with a customizable dashboard