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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

By : Richard Rose
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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

Using Cloud Run for Anthos

As mentioned earlier, working with Cloud Run for Anthos provides the ability to utilize many of the benefits of Kubernetes. In this section, we will explore some of these capabilities. Let's begin by creating (that is, provisioning) a cluster with access to Cloud Run a GKE environment.

Provisioning GKE

Cloud Run for Anthos requires a Kubernetes cluster. At a high level, Kubernetes provides a platform on which to manage (or orchestrate) containers. Outlining the value of Kubernetes is beyond the scope of this book, but it suffices to say it is something that is well worth the investment of time.

To deploy code to Cloud Run for Anthos, there is an assumption that there is a GKE cluster available...