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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

Exploring Google Cloud Storage events

In this example, we want to expand our understanding of background functions. In particular, we will be integrating with Cloud Storage in order to automate object life cycle management.

Taking advantage of existing functionality (for example, packages and libraries) is an excellent way to build your application. In this example, we will leverage Google Cloud Storage encrypted by default to develop a secure data solution.

General architecture

The main difference from our Cloud Pub/Sub example will be the notifications that we attach to Cloud Storage. In this example, we will want the storage bucket to initiate the request to provide a SignedURL function, rather than having to invoke our...