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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

Automating Serverless with Cloud Build

Serverless platforms often focus on developer experience, seeking to ensure developers focus on their code with as little operational overhead as possible. In Google Cloud, platforms such as Cloud Functions and Cloud Run have sought to provide seamless developer experiences that expose little operational work to deploy production-ready code.

That said, these platforms do not ignore the need for certain operational tasks, but provide simple and powerful abstractions that developers can use to manage their code in production. This can include tasks such as building code into an artifact, rolling out new versions of code, scaling code horizontally, connecting to services over a private network, and more.

Cloud Build is often used to orchestrate such activities. With native integrations into Google’s serverless offerings, Cloud Build helps developers achieve these tasks while still remaining true to the vision of serverless –...