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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

At its most basic, Cloud Run allows container-based HTTP endpoints to be spun up and run in the cloud. In the previous chapter, we learned about the basics of how to create containers and build a simple application that was compatible with that environment. Understanding containers allows us to take whatever runtime language we want and make an artifact around our use case. At this point, we will take the opportunity to build our first Cloud Run application so that we can become familiar with both the environment and the product.

In this first exercise, we will call upon some existing code and revisit the static website example (refer Chapter 6, Cloud Functions Labs. Here, we will explore how we can potentially package an existing application. Remember that, in this example, the application is based on Node.js and incorporates peer dependencies. Let&apos...