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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

Building a static website

In the following example, we will be building an application in which our now familiar function baseline code will consume an external data source (based on JSON) and output a view rendered against an HTML template.

Provisioning the environment

We have seen this type of layout used previously in other Node.js applications (for example, Chapter 3, Introducing Lightweight Functions and Chapter 4, Developing Cloud Functions), so in this chapter, the focus will be on building the code necessary to build our website.

To begin, follow these steps:

  1. Make a brand new directory in which to host our code.
  2. Within the new directory, initialize the environment by performing npm init --yes at the command line to...