GCP for DevOps — Storage

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Chapter 5 — Storage

GCP offers multiple storage services. For DevOps engineers, Cloud Storage (object storage) is the most frequently used — for artifacts, logs, Terraform state, backups, and container images. Persistent Disks and Filestore serve block and file storage needs.

What You Will Learn

  • Cloud Storage buckets, classes, and access control
  • Object versioning and lifecycle management
  • Using Cloud Storage in DevOps workflows
  • Persistent Disks for VMs
  • Filestore for shared file systems

Chapter Contents

# Topic Description
1 Cloud Storage Basics Buckets, objects, and access
2 Versioning & Lifecycle Object versioning and auto-cleanup
3 Storage for DevOps Terraform state, artifacts, logs
4 Persistent Disks Block storage for VMs
5 Filestore Managed NFS file shares
6 Practice Exercises Hands-on labs

GCP Storage Landscape

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              GCP Storage Services                    │
├─────────────┬──────────────┬────────────────────────┤
│  Object     │   Block      │   File                 │
│  Storage    │   Storage    │   Storage              │
├─────────────┼──────────────┼────────────────────────┤
│ Cloud       │ Persistent   │ Filestore              │
│ Storage     │ Disks        │ (Managed NFS)          │
│ (GCS)       │ (PD)         │                        │
│             │              │                        │
│ Buckets &   │ Attached to  │ Shared file system     │
│ objects     │ VMs          │ for multiple VMs       │
│             │              │                        │
│ Terraform   │ Boot disks   │ Shared config,         │
│ state, logs,│ Data disks   │ legacy apps,           │
│ artifacts   │ Snapshots    │ media processing       │
└─────────────┴──────────────┴────────────────────────┘

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