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GCP fundamentals
Google Cloud offers compute, data, AI and networking on Google's infrastructure.
📖 Key ideas
- Resource hierarchy: organisation → folders → projects → resources.
- Projects group resources, billing and permissions.
- Regions and zones: Mumbai (asia-south1) and Delhi (asia-south2) in India.
- Tools: Cloud Console, gcloud CLI, Cloud Shell.
- Free tier and $300 trial credits for new users.
💡 Real-life example: A GCP project is a school bag: everything for one subject (app) kept together, with its own bill.
ProjectContainer for GCP resources and billing
gcloudGoogle Cloud CLI
Cloud ShellBrowser terminal with tools installed
ZoneDeployment area within a region