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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By : Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
Book Image

The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By: Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Legacy applications, which comprise 75–80% of all enterprise applications, often end up being stuck in data centers. Modernizing these applications to make them cloud-native enables them to scale in a cloud environment without taking months or years to start seeing the benefits. This book will help software developers and solutions architects to modernize their applications on Google Cloud and transform them into cloud-native applications. This book helps you to build on your existing knowledge of enterprise application development and takes you on a journey through the six Rs: rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining. You'll learn how to modernize a legacy enterprise application on Google Cloud and build on existing assets and skills effectively. Taking an iterative and incremental approach to modernization, the book introduces the main services in Google Cloud in an easy-to-understand way that can be applied immediately to an application. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll have learned how to modernize a legacy enterprise application by exploring various interim architectures and tooling to develop a cloud-native microservices-based application.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
5
Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
10
Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
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Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Authenticating in the web frontend

There are two parts to authenticating in the web frontend. The first is the code and configuration of the web frontend itself to use the authentication framework, and the second is the service provided by Google to be the identity and authentication provider. In the following section, we will look at how to configure the Google Cloud Identity Platform for use with our web frontend.

Setting up Firebase and Google Identity Platform

Before we make use of Firebase and the Google Identity Platform, we will need to configure them both by performing the following steps:

  1. From the navigation menu in Cloud Console, click Identity Platform, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

    Figure 14.1 – Navigation menu: Identity Platform

  2. If Identity Platform is not already enabled, click ENABLE IDENTITY PLATFORM, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

    Figure 14.2 – Enabling Identity Platform

  3. In the Identity Providers page, click...