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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

Defense in depth

The concept of defense in depth for computing is used by information security to ensure that security constructs are put in place at each layer for protection. Cloud Build ensures that these security constructs are in place; some examples are noted in Figure 6.1:

Figure 6.1 – Defense in depth with Cloud Build

While Cloud Build provides the capabilities mentioned here, some services must be enabled or leveraged in the pipeline. There are other security-related solutions available in the market that may not have direct integration with Cloud Build, but they can still be used for pipeline steps due to Cloud Build’s support for custom container images in each step. For instance, you may be able to retrieve values from HashiCorp Vault if your container image has the correct libraries and tools.

There are also a few other examples to be aware of that may leave pipelines sharing sensitive information:

  • Steps that output and...