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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

By : Richard Rose
Book Image

Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

By: Richard Rose

Overview of this book

Google Cloud's serverless platform allows organizations to scale fully managed solutions without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. With this book, you will learn how to design, develop, and deploy full stack serverless apps on Google Cloud. The book starts with a quick overview of the Google Cloud console, its features, user interface (UI), and capabilities. After getting to grips with the Google Cloud interface and its features, you will explore the core aspects of serverless products such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions and App Engine. You will also learn essential features such as version control, containerization, and identity and access management with the help of real-world use cases. Later, you will understand how to incorporate continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) techniques for serverless applications. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with how key technologies such as Knative enable Cloud Run to be hosted on multiple platforms including Kubernetes and VMware. By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in confidently developing, managing, and deploying containerized applications on Google Cloud.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1: App Engine
4
Section 2: Google Cloud Functions
9
Section 3: Google Cloud Run
14
Section 4: Building a Serverless Workload

Introducing Cloud Run

So far in this book, we have discussed many things relating to building serverless technologies in the cloud. In this chapter, we'll look at the latest offering from Google, which provides a stateless environment for your applications. Unlike Cloud Functions, Cloud Run explicitly utilizes container technology to provide a constrained environment for HTTP endpoints. Cloud Functions, on the other hand, provides an opinionated view of serverless workloads, for example, runtime language limitations. Cloud Run removes many of those restrictions in order to meet developers where they are. If you follow these things carefully, you will know that containers and Kubernetes are both the top skills any cloud professional can have.

To commence our discussion, we will outline the Cloud Run component architecture. In doing so, we will discuss several topics in order...