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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

Identity and policy management

Understanding the identity and policy arrangement on Google Cloud is a major learning curve for most users. Identity Access Management is a major component and could easily be the focus of its own book. In short, IAM provides a policy on a project to provide the relevant permissions associated with roles.

On Google Cloud, administrative management operations are typically performed using a service account. Working with the Google Cloud catalog, the IAM roles are defined to address the needs of users across a wide variety of scenarios.

IAM objects

At a high level, Google Cloud uses a hierarchical structure made up of organizations, folders, projects, and resources to marshal access.

  • The organization...