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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

Using the GCP console

Interacting with the CLI or APIs is very important for automation, but for certain scenarios, it’s just as important to be able to quickly get a high-level summary in an organized way on a UI. Cloud Build also has UI capabilities to perform some operations instead of interacting with the API.

The Cloud Build summary Dashboard section provides the following information:

  • A summary of triggers
  • The latest build of the respective trigger
  • Build history filtered by the trigger
  • The average duration of builds
  • The percentage of builds passing and failing, based on the last 20 builds

If a project has a lot of configured triggers or there is a desire to show certain items, the listing of triggers can also be filtered by the following:

  • Trigger source
  • Trigger name
  • Trigger description

A pin may also be placed on triggers that should be shown toward the top of the list. For each trigger, if the build configuration...