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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

Building an application on GAE

To get started, we will consider what tools and assets we need to commence building our first GAE example application.

For this section, we will be taking our source code and deploying it on GAE. As part of this process, we will explore the application structure and how this relates to the deployed system. While using the code, we will observe what information is available and displayed within Google's Cloud Console.

In addition to this, we will look at deploying the application (to discuss what is meant by the default version), how this relates to code, and deploying multiple versions. Finally, we will perform a rollback on the system code deployed to illustrate accomplishing this task and what it means in terms of available versions. But first, let's learn about the Qwiklabs environment that we will be using in this chapter.

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