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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

Build submission and status

Cloud Build as a managed service provides multiple methods to initiate a build to enable maximum flexibility. For instance, it can be triggered in the following ways:

  • Manually
  • Automated through other tools
  • Messages published to Publish/Subscribe (Pub/Sub)
  • On a schedule
  • Changes pushed to the SCM system

A trigger is a mechanism in Cloud Build to start a build pipeline; for instance, this can be a change to source code in an SCM system or an event from another system. Triggers will be covered in more depth in Chapter 5, Triggering Builds.

Note

The commands and output in this chapter are for illustrative purposes to describe capability as well as analysis of the output where applicable. Some of these commands may require prerequisites to be configured in order to execute properly.

First, we start off with a simple cloudbuild.yaml file with two steps that build a Docker image and push it to Artifact Registry. The following...