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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

Building a PDF Conversion Service

In the previous chapters, we have discussed the relative merits of working with serverless computing on Google Cloud. Over the course of this chapter and the next, we will look at a case study to explore how a solution might be deployed. Working through the examples will illustrate how to use many of the techniques we've previously discussed.

In order to do this, we will use an example case study based on Pet Theory, a hypothetical veterinary practice that is making the transition to using serverless technology on Google Cloud.

Over the course of this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Designing a document service
  • Developing a document service
  • Developing a Cloud Run service
  • Securing service access
  • Testing the document access