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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

With this chapter, we have concluded our foray into Cloud Functions on Google Cloud. The last couple of chapters have covered a lot of material on how to develop Cloud Functions. In the first example, we continued on our journey with Cloud Functions to explore how to construct a website based on an external view and data template. In this example, we picked up a couple of tips regarding code organization and dependency isolation.

On completion of the example, we have an easy-to-maintain website that utilizes Cloud Functions to provide a scalable basis for lightweight site access. We learned about the principle of least privilege and how this applies to Cloud Functions. We also learned some fundamental methods that are capable of securing our Cloud Functions by working with Google Cloud service accounts.

At this stage, you should be comfortable building both web applications...