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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

An overview of the Pet Theory case study

As per the previous chapter, our case study is based on the Pet Theory veterinary practice. The full Pet Theory case study incorporates a number of different scenarios that demonstrate how you can resolve typical real-world issues with serverless technology. To view the complete scenario, visit the Qwiklabs website and reference the Pet Theory Quest in order to see the associated labs.

In this exercise, the Pet Theory management team has expressed their concern regarding the level of manual effort that is required to process lab reports. Currently, clinical reports sent from third-party labs are received electronically and are then manually processed by the internal admin team. The process of managing the report is effectively to download the information and add it to a report that is then communicated to the pet owner via email or SMS...