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Megalith's Big GCP Book: A SecDevOps Guide to Google Cloud Platform

First edition.

ISBN (paperback): 978-0-557-88888-7

Published by Megalithic Books.

Author website: https://rickcollette.org

Source repository: https://github.com/megalithic-books/megalith-big-gcp-book

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The code examples are licensed under the MIT License, reproduced here in full and distributed verbatim as LICENSE in the companion source repository.

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Trademarks §

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Terraform, OpenTofu, Ansible, Kubernetes, Linux, GitHub, GitLab, and other product, project, company, and service names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Trademark names are used only for identification, explanation, and technical discussion. This book is independent and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, authorized by, or endorsed by Google LLC or any other vendor or project unless explicitly stated otherwise.

Technical disclaimer §

This book is intended for educational and informational purposes.

Cloud services, APIs, pricing, quotas, product names, user interfaces, security capabilities, provider behavior, command-line tools, and recommended practices change over time. The material in this book reflects the systems and documentation available when the relevant material was written and tested.

Examples in this book may create, modify, expose, stop, or delete cloud resources. Some examples can incur charges. Some operations can cause data loss or service interruption if used without understanding their effect.

You are responsible for reviewing commands, infrastructure definitions, permissions, network rules, security controls, and costs before using them in an environment that matters.

Do not treat any example as a substitute for an architecture review, security review, compliance review, backup plan, change-management process, or tested recovery procedure appropriate to your organization.

The author and publisher make no warranty that the material is error-free or suitable for a particular environment and disclaim liability to the extent permitted by law for loss, damage, service interruption, security incidents, or costs arising from its use.

Publication date: September 2026
Book version: 1.0.0