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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 covered a lot of material in order to work through some typical examples of using GAE. By now, you should have a good understanding of how the architecture and its associated components interact and can prevent the situational reinvention of the wheel.

We began with a discussion of how to deploy an application within the GAE environment. Working with version control and source configuration to support multiple environments was also covered. Finally, we looked at different deployment strategies and took our first look at Stackdriver Logging.

We have seen that GAE is very good at hosting applications that are responsible for managing solutions requiring HTTP(s)/API access. Both GAE Standard and Flex provide compelling cases for serverless applications in Google Cloud. From a developer perspective, there is very little in the way of infrastructure management...