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Getting Started
In this topic you will learn how to work with the powerful features that support Google Cloud Platform diagramming outlined in the following sections.
Selecting the Perspective
Enterprise Architect partitions the tools extensive features into perspectives this ensures that you can focus on a specific task and work with the tools you need without the distraction of other features. To work with the Google Cloud Platform features you first need to select the following perspective:
Analysis > Google Cloud Platform
Setting the perspective ensures that the Google Cloud Platform diagrams and their tool boxes and other features of the perspective will be available by default.
Example Diagram
An example diagram provides a visual introduction to the topic and allows you to see some of the important elements and connectors that are created in specifying or describing the way a Cloud Architecture is defined including: Availability Zones, VPC's, Subnets, EC2, RDS and more.
Import Google Cloud Platform Patterns
Before you can start creating GCP diagrams to specify or document your cloud services you will need first to import the graphics from a pattern. This will inject all the GCP icons as components into the selected location in the Browser window.
Create Google Cloud Platform Diagrams
Once the GCP images have been imported creating GCP diagrams is straight forward as all the icons including App Engines, Compute Engine, Virtual File System and Gateways available from the Browser window and Toolbox. You will simply create a diagram and then drag-and-drop elements from the GCP Browser Packages or the Toolbox.
More Information
This section provides useful links to other topics and resources that you might find useful when working with the Google Cloud Platform tool features.