Summary

To help drive customer success, Google offers tools and interfaces that aid teams in the end-to-end application management process, from developing and deploying applications to supporting them in production. With the Cloud Console, users have access to a powerful and easy-to-use interface for creating and managing cloud resources on the Google Cloud Platform. With the interactive Cloud Shell, functionality is amplified far beyond what a traditional UI could achieve. Google expands on these core features with tools such as the Cloud Shell Code Editor and Web Preview, making it possible to create, test, deploy, and monitor services—all without leaving the browser.

The Cloud Console is part of the larger set of products and services Google offers for creating and managing applications in the cloud. As mentioned, Google offers convenient IDE integrations for local development and remote debugging, as well as mobile applications to make supporting your services easy and convenient no matter where you are. As we'll see in the following chapters, these tools are part of the larger Google Cloud control plane.

In the next chapter, we'll see how all of these interfaces are built on top of a powerful set of APIs that allow granular control of every Google Cloud product and service, and how that makes it possible to build and automate complex processes such as deployments and recovery procedures. Combined with a deep and expressive permission system, the Google Cloud APIs give developers and operations teams the ability to control all aspects of their cloud services in a safe and secure manner.