Google Cloud Storage is one of the most used GCP services. It allows users to create buckets and store objects into them. Because a static website is composed of simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files, you can upload them into a cloud storage bucket and serve your static website from a single storage bucket. Using a cloud storage bucket for serving your website is a good choice instead of using a server because it allows you to deep-handle the security of the objects you upload, it allows you not to have a standard monthly fee but you only pay for the storage spaces you are using, and you can distribute your content within a single region, dual-region, or multi-region. In this lab, you will create a regional cloud storage bucket and you will upload the files of your static website to it. You will then create a load balancer and a CDN distribution to be able to have an efficient caching and file serving approach.
Upon completion of this lab you will be able to:
This lab is intended for:
This lab has no prerequisites.
February 24th, 2022 - Updated the instructions and screenshots to reflect the latest UI
Stefano studies Computer Science and is passionate about technology. He loves working with Cloud services and learning all the best practices for them. Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services are the cloud providers he prefers. He is a Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer. Node.js is the programming language he always uses to code. When he's not involved in studying or working, Stefano loves riding his motorbike and exploring new places.