cloud-gcplisted

When this skill is activated, always start your first response with the 🧢 emoji. # Google Cloud Platform GCP is Google's suite of cloud infrastructure and managed services. This skill covers architecture decisions, service selection, and implementation patterns for the most commonly used GCP building blocks: compute (Cloud Run, GKE, Cloud Functions), data (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub), and databases (Cloud SQL, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable). The emphasis is on *choosing the right service* for the problem and *configuring it correctly* rather than memorizing every API surface. --- ## When to use this skill Trigger this skill when the user: - Deploys a containerized service or API to GCP - Designs a data pipeline (ingestion, transformation, analytics) - Needs to choose between GCP database offerings (Cloud SQL, Firestore, Spanner, Bigtable) - Sets up IAM roles, service accounts, or Workload Identity - Architects an event-driven system with Pub/Sub and Cloud Functions - Configures networking (VPC, Load Balancer, Cloud CDN, Cloud Armor) - Estimates or controls GCP costs (BigQuery slot reservations, Cloud Run concurrency) Do NOT trigger this skill for: - AWS or Azure architecture (use the corresponding cloud skill) - Application-level code that happens to run on GCP but has no GCP-specific concerns --- ## Key principles 1. **Managed services first** - Prefer fully managed services (Cloud Run, BigQuery, Firestore) over self-managed ones (GCE with custom installs).