# Nice Series on Spring Cloud Integration for Google Cloud Platform

> Learn to integrate Spring Cloud with Google Cloud Platform through an 8-part series covering setup, data access, messaging, and production.

Author: [Guillaume Laforge](https://glaforge.dev/) | Published: 2018-09-17 | Topics: google-cloud, spring-cloud, spring | Canonical: https://glaforge.dev/posts/2018/09/17/nice-series-on-spring-cloud-integration-for-google-cloud-platform/


My friend and former colleague [Josh Long](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) wrote a nice series of articles showing the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform. The series contains 8 articles, covering:

-   [the setup & authentication](https://spring.io/blog/2018/08/20/bootiful-gcp-getting-started-with-spring-cloud-for-google-cloud-platform-1-8), 
-   how to [access relational databases](https://spring.io/blog/2018/08/23/bootiful-gcp-relational-data-access-with-spring-cloud-gcp-2-8), 
-   how to [connect to Spanner](https://spring.io/blog/2018/08/27/bootiful-gcp-globally-consistent-data-access-with-spanner-3-8), 
-   how to [send/receive messages with Pub/Sub](https://spring.io/blog/2018/08/30/bootiful-gcp-integration-with-google-cloud-pub-sub-4-8), 
-   how to [use the runtime configuration](https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/03/bootiful-gcp-runtime-configuration-with-spring-cloud-gcp-runtime-config-5-8), 
-   how to look into [Stackdriver tracing](https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/06/bootiful-gcp-supporting-observability-with-spring-cloud-gcp-stackdriver-trace-6-8), 
-   how to [access other services like the machine learning APIs](https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/10/bootiful-gcp-use-spring-cloud-gcp-to-connect-to-other-gcp-services-7-8), 
-   and last but not least, how to [go to production](https://spring.io/blog/2018/09/13/bootiful-gcp-to-production-8-8).

So if you're using Spring and Spring Boot, this is the way to go for getting started on using Google Cloud Platform. For further reference, you can go read the [documentation](https://cloud.spring.io/spring-cloud-gcp/) that covers this integration.