Cloud

IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, and why renting compute changed how software gets built.

Organizations, folders, projects, and resources - plus regions and zones - the shape every Google Cloud deployment shares.

Install-once, use-everywhere: gcloud init, properties, configurations, output formats, and release levels.

Virtual machines, auto-scaling groups, and load balancers - the building blocks behind "just add more servers."

Object storage, block storage, and managed databases - and when to reach for each.

Principals, roles, and policy bindings - and why workloads should run as narrowly scoped service accounts, not with keys.

Create, inspect, stop, and SSH into virtual machines - machine types, public images, and what a stopped VM still costs.

Globally named buckets, storage classes, and locations - and the gcloud storage commands to move files in and out.

Users, roles, and policies - applying least privilege to who (and what) can touch your cloud resources.

Global VPCs, regional subnets, auto versus custom mode, and the firewall rules that decide what reaches your VMs.

Deploy a container image to a fully managed, autoscaling HTTPS endpoint - services, revisions, scale to zero, and public access.

VPCs, subnets, and security groups - the virtual network every cloud resource lives inside.

Autopilot versus Standard clusters, how each is billed, and connecting kubectl with get-credentials.