Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for .NET and Full Stack Developers Cheat Sheet

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for .NET and Full Stack Developers

GCP fundamentals — resource hierarchy (organisation, folders, projects), regions and zones, Cloud IAM and service accounts; compute (Compute Engine, Cloud Run, GKE, App Engine, Cloud Functions), storage (Cloud Storage), databases (Cloud SQL for SQL Server/PostgreSQL/MySQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Firestore, Bigtable, Memorystore), analytics (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow), networking (VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, Cloud DNS), security (Secret Manager, Cloud KMS, Identity Platform), operations (Cloud Logging, Monitoring, Trace), CI/CD (Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Deploy), deploying ASP.NET Core to Cloud Run, Vertex AI, cost management and GCP interview questions.

Key services

Compute Engine · Cloud Run · GKE (Autopilot) · Cloud Run functions · Cloud Storage · Cloud SQL (SQL Server/Postgres/MySQL) · AlloyDB · Spanner · Firestore · Bigtable · Memorystore · BigQuery · Pub/Sub · Eventarc · Cloud Tasks · Load Balancing · Cloud CDN · Cloud Armor · Secret Manager · Cloud KMS · Logging/Monitoring/Trace · Cloud Build · Artifact Registry · Vertex AI.

Hierarchy & IAM

Org → folders → projects → resources · predefined roles · service accounts for workloads · Workload Identity Federation (no keys) · org policies.

.NET on GCP

Container on Cloud Run (listen on PORT) · Cloud SQL via private IP or Auth Proxy · secrets via --set-secrets · JSON logs to stdout · Cloud Build/GitHub Actions deploy.

Cost

Sustained & committed use discounts · Spot VMs · scale to zero · budgets · BigQuery partition/cluster · lifecycle rules.

Compared with Azure/AWS

Global VPC · global load balancer with one anycast IP · strongest analytics (BigQuery) · Kubernetes origin (GKE) · per-second billing.