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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

Speeding up your builds

Whether you are just getting started or have been leveraging Cloud Build for a while, it’s always good to seek ways to reduce the amount of time it takes for a build to take place. The following is an example list:

  • Specifying a machineType with more resources, such as standard, highmem, and highcpu (covered in Chapter 2, Configuring Cloud Build Workers)
  • Parallelizing steps using waitFor (covered in Chapter 4, Build Configuration and Schema)
  • Leaner builder container images for each build step
  • Caching intermediate image layers to be used in subsequent builds

The techniques for optimizing Docker images (https://docs.docker.com/develop/dev-best-practices/) also apply to Cloud Build builder images. The smaller the images are, the less time it takes for the Cloud Build worker to pull the image and begin executing the step. Having images that separate the dependencies for building application code and the libraries required to execute...