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Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build

By : Anthony Bushong, Kent Hua
Book Image

Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build

By: Anthony Bushong, Kent Hua

Overview of this book

When adopting cloud infrastructure, you are often looking to modernize the automation of workflows such as continuous integration and software delivery. Minimizing operational overhead via fully managed solutions such as Cloud Build can be tough. Moreover, learning Cloud Build’s API and build schema, scalability, security, and integrating Cloud Build with other external systems can be challenging. This book helps you to overcome these challenges by cementing a Google Cloud Build foundation. The book starts with an introduction to Google Cloud Build and explains how it brings value via automation. You will then configure the architecture and environment in which builds run while learning how to execute these builds. Next, you will focus on writing and configuring fully featured builds and executing them securely. You will also review Cloud Build's functionality with practical applications and set up a secure delivery pipeline for GKE. Moving ahead, you will learn how to manage safe roll outs of cloud infrastructure with Terraform. Later, you will build a workflow from local source to production in Cloud Run. Finally, you will integrate Cloud Build with external systems while leveraging Cloud Deploy to manage roll outs. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to automate workflows securely by leveraging the principles of Google Cloud Build.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Fundamentals
5
Part 2: Deconstructing a Build
9
Part 3: Practical Applications
14
Part 4: Looking Forward

Securing Software Delivery to GKE with Cloud Build

Software supply chain security has become a critical focus of the industry in recent years, with numerous compromises resulting in damaging outcomes for companies and users alike. This focus has yielded more rigorous practices in securing software delivery, underscoring the importance of practices such as verifying trust in the artifacts you deploy and applying the principle of least privilege (POLP). With Cloud Build being a recommended mechanism for automating software delivery in Google Cloud, it is important to understand its capabilities and best practices around security.

In this chapter, we will walk through an example of leveraging Cloud Build to deploy a set of applications to a private Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster while implementing multiple security best practices using Cloud Build features.

Specifically, we will cover these topics in this chapter:

  • Creating your build infrastructure and deployment...