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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

Consuming Third-Party Data via a REST API

Previously, in Chapter 11, Building a PDF Conversion Service, we learned how to create a PDF service using Cloud Run. In this final chapter, we will turn the complexity up a gear in order to build a more complex example based on the Pet Theory case study. The requirement is to implement a serverless solution on Google Cloud using multiple services.

Through this chapter, your knowledge of serverless workloads and the experience required for real-world enterprise products will be challenged. By the end of it, a real-world application will be created that demonstrates the key aspects of serverless workloads on the Google Cloud.

Over the course of this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • An overview of the Pet Theory case study
  • Designing a lab report solution
  • Developing the lab solution
  • Email SMS communication
  • The continuous integration...