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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

By : Richard Rose
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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

In this chapter, we looked into the critical aspects of Cloud Run and worked through some everyday use cases. During this process, we observed many essential concepts, such as how to incorporate Cloud Build and Container Registry developer tooling into our workflow. For those of you who were unfamiliar with these tools, hopefully, you now know enough to use them in your day-to-day tasks. Building on our introduction of containerized environments (for example, Docker), we learned how Cloud Run removes much of the complexity of deploying consistent and isolated code. Once the container has been built successfully, it can be deployed. As with Google's other serverless products, Cloud Run scales to zero.

Support for serverless request/response messages is inherent in Cloud Run, so there is a consistent and straightforward method for developing components. Besides, adding...