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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

Understanding the App Engine framework

Exploring the general architecture of App Engine brings to light how much of the underlying framework has been put in place to deliver integrated workflows for web application development.

Google has bundled many internal services to minimize the effort needed by developers to make their applications cloud-native. Added to that is the innate ability of the GAE service to automatically scale without any additional actions required on the part of the service creator.

Creating a web application on this platform can be as simple as deploying your code to the App Engine environment. However, behind the scenes, there are several activities taking place to ensure that the application is deployed successfully, the infrastructure is provisioned, and the whole thing is ultimately able to scale intelligently. So, what is happening in the underlying...