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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

Section 4: Building a Serverless Workload

In this section, you will develop a serverless workload designed around a fictitious business named Pet Theory. These chapters demonstrate several techniques, as well as the most common use cases for serverless workloads.

The first example illustrates how to incorporate an open source application and extend its use to producing PDF documents. In this example, you will learn how to integrate multiple components to build a serverless application.

The second example provides more of a challenge to you. In this use case, you will create and integrate multiple services through the use of a scalable architecture. Developer productivity will increase through the use of a CI pipeline and Cloud Build triggers that automatically build and deploy components.

This section comprises the following chapters: