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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

Summary

In this chapter, we walked through a broad overview of Cloud Functions and where it sits within the Google Cloud Serverless portfolio. Also, we looked at a few tangential aspects that are relevant to the use of FaaS, such as HTTP2 and the data life cycle.

By exploring the runtimes and observing the associated code throughout the chapter, we are now aware of how to structure Cloud Functions in multiple languages. We also are aware of how to test and resolve issues by incorporating monitoring and logging into our development workflow. As you will know, Google provides a full array of tools and services to get you to the point where you can quickly develop a minimum viable product (MVP).

In the next chapter, we will cover some more examples in greater depth. Building an application provides an excellent way to learn the critical elements of a serverless application environment...