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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

Integrations with source code management platforms

The source repository is a critical component of a trigger because it’s dependent on the resources in the repository and a snapshot of the files so that builds can reference a particular set of source files. Cloud Build supports a growing list of SCM platforms. Following is a list of currently supported SCM platforms and how they are integrated with Cloud Build (that is, trigger types and how repositories can be accessed).

Table 5.1 – SCM platform trigger type and access configurations

Each of these platforms, as noted, may have a native trigger or webhook trigger configuration. The authentication and authorization of repositories may also depend on the platform. When there are secret resources to be managed, native Google Secret Manager integration is available to help manage secrets. For GitHub, via the GitHub app, it is also possible to update the build status on the commit in the repository...