Configuring Cloud Build Workers
Having discussed a little about the context of automation in the industry and where Cloud Build fits into this, let’s dive into the implementation details of Cloud Build. We will start with Cloud Build workers—the machines that execute your builds.
The possibilities for what builds can automate and accomplish are numerous. They can define a series of steps that test source code and translate it into an executable binary. They can define a number of cloud infrastructure resources to be created, updated, or torn down. They can read from and write to various external systems, such as Git-based repositories or container registries. They can define workflows for data processing or machine learning (ML) pipelines.
When writing builds for Cloud Build, each step runs in a container, and that container image can be built and provided by you. As we discussed in the previous chapter, these container images that run a build step are called builders...