Open Water Foundation / Learn Google Cloud Platform

This documentation provides resources to learn how to use the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which provides cloud-hosted services for business and industry, such as cloud storage, virtual machines, etc. GCP is useful running business applications using cloud resources so that on-site computing infrastructure does not need to be purchased or maintained.

This documentation has been written based on experience using GCP at the Open Water Foundation.

About the Open Water Foundation

The Open Water Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise that focuses on developing and supporting open source software for water resources, so that organizations can make better decisions about water. OWF also works to advance open data tools and implementation. OWF has created this documentation to educate its staff, collaborators, and clients that use GCP.

How to Use this Documentation

The documentation is organized in order of information and tasks necessary to use GCP.

This documentation is not intended to be a full reference for GCP but focuses on topics that will help understand important technical concepts and be successful with GCP. See the Resources section for general information about GCP.

Use the navigation menu provided on the left side of the page to navigate the documentation sections within the full document. Use the navigation menu provided on the right side of the page to navigate the documentation sections with a page. The navigation menus may not be displayed if the web browser window is narrow or if viewing on a mobile device, in which case look for a menu icon to access the menus. Use the search feature to find documentation matching search words.

License

The OWF GCP website content and examples are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Source Repository on GitHub

The source files for this documentation are maintained in a GitHub repository: owf-learn-google-cloud-platform.