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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 detailed the process for fulfilling project requirements with Google Cloud serverless technologies. As part of this process, we broke down the initial customer requirements and matched those to pre-existing Google Cloud products. Taking this approach significantly shortened our development cycle and minimized the level of testing required.

Working with serverless architectures on Google Cloud presents a number of opportunities to build some exciting applications. As we have seen in this chapter, the design and development process can be extremely rewarding. In most instances, working with the system to minimize both the code developed and the complexity of the application is time well spent. Our application example clearly demonstrates how using existing packages can significantly increase overall productivity and deliver on customer requirements....