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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 operations

Congratulations—we’ve submitted a build via the CLI and navigated across the UI for some additional details! Operationally, there are quite a few things we may want to do after a build has been kicked off. A few thoughts come to mind, and these are set out here:

  • View the logs
  • View the build history
  • Rebuild
  • View the audit logs
  • Build provenance

Let’s get started with how to access the logs of a build that has already been kicked off. We’ll continue the example using gcloud. Leveraging the ID of the build, we are also able to retrieve the logs for the build, like so:

$ gcloud builds log ca6fd20f-7da3-447e-a213-7b542f9edb5c

Here is a sample output of the preceding command:

----------------------------------------------- REMOTE BUILD OUTPUT ------------------------------------------------
starting build "ca6fd20f-7da3-447e-a213-7b542f9edb5c"
 
FETCHSOURCE
Fetching storage object: gs://##project...