Book Image

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

Preface

This book gets started by discussing the value of managed services and how they can help organizations focus on the business problems at hand. Build pipelines are critical in organizations because they help build, test, and validate code before it is deployed into production environments.

We then jump right into Cloud Build: the fundamentals, configuration options, compute options, build execution, build triggering, and build security.

The book’s remaining chapters close with practical examples of how to use Cloud Build in automation scenarios. While Cloud Build can help with software build life cycles, it can also coordinate delivery to runtimes such as serverless and Kubernetes.