What Is GCP (Google Cloud Platform)?

Nowadays, almost everything runs on the Internet. We have millions of apps, websites, and online services. And they all need computers to do their work. That's why billions of dollars are spent on cloud computing services. And Google Cloud Platform is just one of these cloud computing companies.

But what can you do with GCP? Let's say you're a company that builds apps. How can cloud computing help you? Well, your apps will need to use things like:

• Databases
• Servers
• Storage space for files
• Containers running on Kubernetes clusters
• And so on

Google Cloud lets you access such resources. You can pick between computing hardware or services. Here's an example of hardware vs. service. For example, you want a Kubernetes cluster.

You have two options:

• You rent a few virtual servers from Google Cloud. You pick how many CPU cores each server has. You choose the amount of RAM you need. And you also pick how many GB of storage space you want. Then you install Kubernetes software on all servers. Finally, you connect them with each other to form that cluster.

• It's a long process to create a cluster manually. So you might want an easier way. On GCP you can buy Kubernetes as a service instead. Basically, you get access to a Kubernetes cluster, directly. You don't need to rent servers and configure them yourself. Google takes care of the server details, behind the scenes. You just buy the GKE service (Google Kubernetes Engine) and you get a ready-made cluster.
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Google Cloud has hundreds of products and services like these. And this can be overwhelming for beginners. It's hard to understand what each product, or service does. It's hard to figure out how to configure each one. And that's why we created KodeKloud Playgrounds.

KodeKloud Google Cloud Playground

You can read about Google Cloud on the Internet. You can check out tutorials. But with theory alone, it's still hard to understand GCP. So we created the Google Cloud Playground to let you get some hands-on experience. You will be able to use the cloud-compute platform directly. And you'll launch and configure services yourself. This will help you understand Google Cloud much faster. And you can test things, risk-free. No risk of receiving a huge bill for the services. No risk of breaking anything as it's just a temporary environment. You can reset and recreate it if you need to start over.

One click and you can start learning about Google Cloud.