Google Cloud Platform

Having worked for several large organizations as a tech contributor and a keen open source and Linux enthusiast, have always found Google closer than Microsoft. AWS is perhaps second closest after Google. While I have worked on AWS extensively, got very limited opportunity to work on Google Cloud Platform.

So decided to take the plunge and decided to start so fresh - that I literally signed up for a new Google account, hardened the Google account, dedicated a old phone for logging in and added that account as family account so that I could share YouTube Premium :).  

I will be using a Google Chromebook for everything I am going to be doing here. After having used feature rich tools I am really intrigued by basic default tools available Google Chromebook. These are really basic, yet functional. Don't know how much they scalable for a large production environment and I guess they are not - but maybe adding Reminna on Chromebook could solve ssh needs.

With that out of the way, I signed up for Google Cloud Platform, added various details and smilingly accepted the US $ 300 (~ INR 25,000) worth of credits to start exploring Google Cloud Platform. 

And oh boy!! Was I impressed... Yes I was - It was the slickest and by far the easiest console to work with as compared to AWS. I decided I am going to do the right things and follow best practices in setting up the cloud environment. I followed Google's documentation and watched some really interesting & well made YouTube videos. 

This is my journey of on boarding and learning Google Cloud Platform. Follow if you like and comment if you have suggestions.

Cheers.