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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

The continuous integration workflow

While building components, using a manual approach may seem like a good technique due to its implementation simplicity. In this chapter, we will automate this process. The reason for this is that there are multiple code bases that need to be built and deployed, which, if done manually, can result in unnecessary errors in the process.

Instead of a manual build, we turn our focus to a development tool to take care of this repetitive build and deploy process. In our project, we intend to use Cloud Build to manage the build workflow on Google Cloud. To use Cloud Build, it is worth understanding the actual process to be automated, since the configuration required will often be an approximation of the manual steps to be followed.

When working in this project, our developer workflow can be defined using the following steps:

  1. A developer commits their...