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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

Developing with Cloud Run

In this chapter, we'll look into the feature set of Cloud Run. As we saw in Chapter 7, Introducing Cloud Run, Cloud Run allows stateless containers to be provisioned and run on serverless infrastructure based on Google Cloud. In this chapter, we will focus on working with Cloud Run and how to use some of the available developer tools to develop serverless applications.

Cloud Run is part of a wider ecosystem that provides us with the means to build web services at a wide scale. Interestingly, it can also exist within the Kubernetes ecosystem without changes needing to be made to the artifact configuration. If you have worked with Docker or Cloud Functions previously, much of the environment that supports Cloud Run will be familiar to you. At the time of writing, Cloud Run has just become generally available; however, some of the Google Cloud console...