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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

Designing a document service

Pet Theory has an issue with its existing process for document management. Currently, they use multiple document formats within the business and want to rationalize this to use a single unified approach. After some consultation, they decided to transition to Portable Document Format (PDF) so that they could continue to use rich media when sending information electronically to their clients and suppliers.

In terms of requirements, the Pet Theory team have decided they need a system capable of the following:

Requirement

Component

Storing document information

Storage

Handling processing requests

Processing

Securing service access

Security

Processing document conversions

Service

Now we have the high-level requirements for the application, we should add to our understanding by describing each requirement.

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