Cloud Architect - How To Build Architectural Diagrams

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So you aspire to be a cloud architect and you want to get started building
architectural/Solution diagrams of GCP. This article is for you.
In this blog post we will, step by step, build a diagram of an application

(content management) that runs on GCP. We will be using a platform
called Lucidchart. Before we start we need to familiarize ourselves with
Google Cloud Platform and its resources.
First of all, let us define this following terms:
A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a

company’s cloud computing strategy. This includes cloud adoption plans, cloud
application design, and cloud management and monitoring. Cloud architects
oversee application
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including public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud. Additionally, cloud
architects act as consultants to their organization and need to stay up-to-date
on the latest trends and issues.
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Lucidchart is a web-based commercial service which allows users to

collaborate and work together in real time to create flowcharts, organisational
charts, website wireframes, UML designs, mind maps, software prototypes,
and many other diagram types. Built on web standards such as HTML5 and
JavaScript, Lucidchart is supported in many common web browsers like
Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11+.
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With Lucidchart you are able to share dynamic diagrams with the rest of the
world.
Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing

services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its
end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube.
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Step 1 : Introduction to Lucidchart

Lucidchart is one of the designing or architecting platforms that Google
recommends for building diagrams:
On lucidchart.com, sign up for a Free Single user account, finish

registration process and get your hands dirty. You can also visit chrome web
store (I use Chrome Browser) and download Lucidchart Diagrams
Desktop or Lucidchart Diagrams. The apps you downloaded will appear
on your chrome browser Apps on the top right corner.
Now on locidchart.com click help on the footer of the landing page and you
will find the following page:
The Help Center page will help you to find all the resources that will teach
you about the platform and help you explore.
Step 2: Building architectural diagrams of Google

Cloud Platform(GCP)
Ok, now we get to the most important part of this blog post. Make sure that
you logged into your account and get ready for work. The following page
will show:
documents page
Click Document button and you will redirected to following page:
Click: Shapes > Google Cloud Platform >Save
Output:
Note: now we have GCP icon on your left side
Ok, before we start, first we need to familiarize ourselves with Google

Cloud Platform icons.
We are building a solution diagram of an application hosted on GCPs

Compute Engine. This is what makes GCP powerful, according to Google,
they built GCP by using the very same infrastructure that Google uses to
serve content from sites such as Gmail, Google.com, and YouTube. That’s
why GCP provides a robust, flexible, reliable, and scalable platform for
serving websites /web apps.
What is Google Compute Engine (GCE) ?
Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google
infrastructure. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that
allows you to
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GCP provides Google Compute Engine for infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

use cases. Compute Engine provides a robust computing infrastructure
whereby we choose and configure the platform components that we want
to use. With GCE, it’s our responsibility to configure, administer, and
monitor the systems/applications. Google ensures that resources are
available, reliable, and ready for us to use them, but it’s up to us to
provision and manage them. The advantage is that we have complete
control of our systems and unlimited flexibility.
In this Technical Article, we will use Compute Engine to design and deploy
a website-serving system. We use Virtual Machines (VMs) that are called
instances, to build our web application. GCE offers a variety of machine
types to customize our configuration to meet our needs and our budget. We
can choose which operating systems, tech/development stacks, programing
languages, frameworks,
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Before building architectural diagrams of Google Cloud

Platform(GCP)
Understand the requirements. If you’re building a new website, make sure

you understand the components you’ll need, such as instances, storage needs,
and networking infrastructure. If you’re migrating your application from an
existing solution, you probably already understand these requirements, but
you’ll need think through how your existing setup maps to GCP services.
Plan the design. Think through your architecture and write down your
design. Be as explicit as you can.
https://cloud.google.com/solutions/web-serving-overview
Building content management systems
Here we are serving a website or managing our website assets. Google

Cloud Storage provides a global repository for these assets. Our architecture
deploys static
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The architecture below depicts the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

components and services to create our Content Management system.
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or multiple regions, close to your users and to meet your high
availability requirements. Cloud Load Balancing can put your resources
behind a single anycast IP and scale your resources up or down with
Autoscaling.
Cloud storage: is used for consistent, scalable, large-capacity object storage.

Static content is stored here.
Cloud SQL: for storing dynamic content.
Cloud DNS: is a scalable, reliable and managed authoritative Domain

Name System (DNS) service running on the same infrastructure as Google. It
has low latency, high availability and is a cost-effective way to make your
applications and services available to your users.
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9/5/2020 Cloud Architect: How to build architectural diagrams of Google Cloud Platform(GCP) | by Sphe Malgas | Medium

Cloud Architect: How to build

In this blog post we will, step by step, build a diagram of an application

First of all, let us define this following terms:

A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a

Lucidchart is a web-based commercial service which allows users to

Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing

Step 1 : Introduction to Lucidchart

On lucidchart.com, sign up for a Free Single user account, finish

Step 2: Building architectural diagrams of Google

Click Document button and you will redirected to following page:

Click: Shapes > Google Cloud Platform >Save

Note: now we have GCP icon on your left side

Ok, before we start, first we need to familiarize ourselves with Google

We are building a solution diagram of an application hosted on GCPs

What is Google Compute Engine (GCE) ?

GCP provides Google Compute Engine for infrastructure as a service (IaaS)

Before building architectural diagrams of Google Cloud

Understand the requirements. If you’re building a new website, make sure

Building content management systems

Here we are serving a website or managing our website assets. Google

The architecture below depicts the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Cloud storage: is used for consistent, scalable, large-capacity object storage.

Cloud SQL: for storing dynamic content.

Cloud DNS: is a scalable, reliable and managed authoritative Domain

Next we will build an architecture for containers (microsevices), IoT and

Cloud Computing Software Engineering DevOps Programming Coding

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