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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

Pet Theory case study overview

For our case study, we will be exploring the Pet Theory veterinary practice. In this scenario, the business is looking to transition to serverless technology and provide some practical methods to incorporate Google Cloud and its products within the business.

The full Pet Theory case study incorporates a number of different scenarios that demonstrate how to resolve typical real-world issues with serverless technology. To view the complete scenario, visit the Qwiklabs site and search for Serverless Workshop: Pet Theory Quest (https://www.qwiklabs.com/quests/98) to see the associated labs.

Over the course of this chapter and the next, we will be working through two lab examples that illustrate the power and flexibility of serverless technologies. In the first example in this chapter, we will look at how Pet Theory deals with moving to a unified document...