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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

Developer productivity

In our second example, we will investigate the development tools that accompany the Cloud Run environment. Creating a PDF is something most of us now take for granted, and it is one of the easiest ways to share documentation. Many businesses utilize a service that sends out invoices or similar information to their customer base.

Similar to Cloud Functions, becoming familiar with the environment and establishing a development workflow can increase your levels of productivity. In this section, we will also take a look at how to integrate other developer tools such as Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Source Repositories, and Container Registry, as these can be hugely beneficial when developing on Google Cloud.

Before we begin looking at the example, let's take a moment to explore a typical development workflow. For many developers, their workflow resembles something...