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The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By : Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston
Book Image

The Definitive Guide to Modernizing Applications on Google Cloud

By: Steve (Satish) Sangapu, Dheeraj Panyam, Jason Marston

Overview of this book

Legacy applications, which comprise 75–80% of all enterprise applications, often end up being stuck in data centers. Modernizing these applications to make them cloud-native enables them to scale in a cloud environment without taking months or years to start seeing the benefits. This book will help software developers and solutions architects to modernize their applications on Google Cloud and transform them into cloud-native applications. This book helps you to build on your existing knowledge of enterprise application development and takes you on a journey through the six Rs: rehosting, replatforming, rearchitecting, repurchasing, retiring, and retaining. You'll learn how to modernize a legacy enterprise application on Google Cloud and build on existing assets and skills effectively. Taking an iterative and incremental approach to modernization, the book introduces the main services in Google Cloud in an easy-to-understand way that can be applied immediately to an application. By the end of this Google Cloud book, you'll have learned how to modernize a legacy enterprise application by exploring various interim architectures and tooling to develop a cloud-native microservices-based application.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud
5
Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services
10
Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application
17
Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

Using Cloud Spanner

Although we will not be using Cloud Spanner for our application at this point, it is important to understand how to provision a Cloud Spanner instance and configure our application to use it. We will examine the following:

  • Provisioning Cloud Spanner
  • Updating our application build to use the open source Cloud Spanner JDBC library
  • Updating our application settings to support this new configuration

The key thing is that, to our application, Cloud Spanner will look just like any JDBC-enabled relational database, and so we will not have to change any of the source code, just the configuration.

Provisioning Cloud Spanner

To provision Cloud Spanner, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. From the navigation menu, select Spanner:

    Figure 11.40 – Spanner menu item

  2. Click CREATE INSTANCE:

    Figure 11.41 – CREATE INSTANCE action

  3. Enter the Instance name:

    Figure 11.42 – Instance name and ID

  4. Choose the region as...