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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

Designing a lab report solution

In this scenario, the Pet Theory team is keen to explore how they can use serverless technologies to automate the receiving and processing of lab results. Lab reports are currently received electronically and then have to be manually sent to clients. As per previous examples, the emphasis of the activities to be performed is to demonstrate how to replace existing tasks with minimum development effort. In addition to this, the components used should be loosely coupled so that further enhancements are straightforward to implement and do not require significant rework.

In terms of the requirements stated, the Pet Theory team has decided they need a system capable of the following:

Requirement

Service

Report collation

Reporting

Message handling

Message

Email communication

Email

SMS communication

SMS

Test data capture...