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Authenticating workforce users in a hybrid environment How to extend your identity management solution to Google Cloud to enable your workforce to authenticate and consume services in a hybrid computing environment. Products used: Cloud Identity |
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Provides guidance on extending your existing, on-premises render farm to use compute resources on Google Cloud (Google Cloud). Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Storage, Cloud VPN, Compute Engine, Dedicated Interconnect |
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Build hybrid and multicloud architectures using Google Cloud Provides practical guidance on planning and architecting your hybrid and multi-cloud environments using Google Cloud. Products used: Anthos, Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Centralized network appliances on Google Cloud This document is intended for network administrators, solutions architects, and operations professionals who run centralized network appliances on Google Cloud. Knowledge of Compute Engine and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking in Google Cloud is... Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine |
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Configuring Active Directory for VMs to automatically join a domain Shows you how to configure Active Directory and Compute Engine so that Windows virtual machine (VM) instances can automatically join an Active Directory domain. Products used: Cloud Run, Cloud Scheduler, Compute Engine, Container Registry, Secret Manager |
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Connect Google Virtual Private Clouds to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using Equinix Shows how to use Equinix Network Edge and Partner Interconnect to deploy multicloud connectivity between Google Cloud VPC networks and Oracle® VCNs. Products used: Cloud Interconnect, Compute Engine, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Data management with Cohesity Helios and Google Cloud How Cohesity works with Google Cloud Storage. Cohesity is a hyperconverged secondary storage system for consolidating backup, test/dev, file services, and analytic datasets onto a scalable data platform. Products used: Cloud Storage |
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Deploy a cold recoverable web server with persistent disk snapshots Learn how to use a cold failover pattern for web servers using persistent disk snapshots. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Persistent Disk |
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Deploy a cold recoverable web server with regional persistent disks Learn how to use a cold failover pattern for web servers using regional persistent disks. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Compute Engine, Persistent Disk |
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Deploy a warm recoverable web server using Cloud DNS with Compute Engine and Cloud Storage Learn how to use a warm failover pattern for web servers using Cloud DNS and Compute Engine VMs and Cloud Storage. Products used: Cloud DNS, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine |
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Deploy a warm recoverable web server with Compute Engine and Cloud Storage Learn how to use a warm failover pattern for web servers with Compute Engine VMs and external HTTPS load balancing... Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine |
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Deploy an Active Directory forest on Compute Engine Describes how to deploy an Active Directory forest on Compute Engine in a way that follows the best practices. Products used: Cloud DNS, Compute Engine, Identity-Aware Proxy |
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Disaster recovery planning guide The first part of a series that discusses disaster recovery (DR) in Google Cloud. This part provides an overview of the DR planning process: what you need to know in order to design and implement a DR plan. Products used: Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Storage, Spanner |
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File storage on Compute Engine Describes and compares options for file storage on Compute Engine. Products used: Compute Engine, Filestore |
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FortiGate architecture in Google Cloud Describes the overall concepts around deploying a FortiGate Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) in Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, Compute Engine, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Global load-balancing architectures using DNS routing policies This document describes how you can combine multiple regional load balancers with Google DNS routing policies to create global load-balancing architectures. The document is aimed at network engineers, solutions architects, and operations... Products used: Google Load Balancing |
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Google Cloud plug-in for VMware Aria The Google Cloud Plug-in for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator lets you provision and manage Google Cloud resources using VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator and VMware Aria Automation. Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Hub-and-spoke network architecture Evaluate the architectural options for designing hub-and-spoke network topologies in Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud NAT, Cloud VPN, Virtual Private Cloud |
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Hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns Discusses common hybrid and multicloud architecture patterns, and describes the scenarios that these patterns are best suited for. Products used: Cloud Armor, Cloud DNS, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Looker |
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Hybrid and multicloud monitoring and logging patterns Discusses monitoring and logging architectures for hybrid and multicloud deployments, and provides best practices for implementing them by using Google Cloud. Products used: Anthos, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Hybrid and multicloud secure networking architecture patterns Discusses several common secure network architecture patterns that you can use for hybrid and multicloud architectures. Products used: Cloud Armor, Cloud DNS, Cloud Firewall Plus, Cloud Interconnect, Cloud NAT, Cloud VPN, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Private Service Connect |
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Identify and prioritize security risks with Wiz Security Graph and Google Cloud Describes how to identify and prioritize security risks in your cloud workloads with Wiz Security Graph and Google Cloud. Products used: Artifact Registry, Cloud Audit Logs, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Identity Access Management, Security Command Center |
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Logging and monitoring on-premises resources with BindPlane Describes considerations and design patterns for using Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and BindPlane to provide logging and monitoring services for on-premises resources. Products used: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring |
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Managing cloud infrastructure using kpt Showcases how you can combine kpt with other Google solutions like Config Sync and Anthos blueprints. Products used: Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Migrating On-Premises Hadoop Infrastructure to Google Cloud Guidance on moving on-premises Hadoop workloads to Google Cloud... Products used: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataproc |
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Migrating VMs to containers with Migrate to Containers This document is for cloud architects responsible for designing and implementing a migration plan for virtual-machine-based workloads to containers. It provides guidance about using Migrate to Containers to migrate your virtual machines (VMs) from... Products used: Anthos, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Modernization path for .NET Framework applications on Google Cloud Looks at the common limitations of monolithic applications and describes a gradual yet structured process for modernizing them. Products used: Anthos, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Migrate for Compute Engine |
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Monitoring time-series data with OpenTSDB on Bigtable and GKE Time-series data is a highly valuable asset that you can use for various applications, including trending, monitoring, and machine learning. You can generate time-series data from server infrastructure, application code, and other sources. OpenTSDB... Products used: Bigtable, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) |
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Overview of identity and access management Explores the general practice of identity and access management (generally referred to as IAM) and the individuals who are subject to it, including corporate identities, customer identities, and service identities. Products used: Cloud Identity, Identity and Access Management |
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Patterns for connecting other cloud service providers with Google Cloud Helps cloud architects and operations professionals decide how to connect Google Cloud with other cloud service providers (CSP) such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Products used: Cloud Interconnect, Dedicated Interconnect, Partner Interconnect |
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Patterns for using Active Directory in a hybrid environment Requirements to consider when you deploy Active Directory to Google Cloud and helps you choose the right architecture. Products used: Cloud Identity |
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Reference architecture: Resource management with ServiceNow Provides architectural recommendations to integrate Google Cloud assets into ServiceNow discovery tools. Products used: Cloud Asset Inventory, Compute Engine |
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Secure virtual private cloud networks with the Palo Alto VM-Series NGFW Describes the networking concepts that you need to understand to deploy Palo Alto Networks VM-Series next generation firewall (NGFW) in Google Cloud. Products used: Cloud Storage |