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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

Securing service access

With the service enabled successfully, we will turn our attention to securing access. To achieve this, we will be creating a new service account with the specific task of managing the invocation of the new service.

Thinking back to the original design, the service is actually invoked by Cloud Pub/Sub rather than a user. As we have chained together a series of events, we can take advantage of this to minimize the external sources that are able to initiate our new service. The following steps illustrate how to create a service account tasked with the invocation of a new Cloud Run PDF service instance.

Creating a service account

To create a service account, follow these simple steps:

  1. Create a new service...