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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

Introducing Cloud Functions

The Cloud Functions platform provides an effective way to run single-purpose code in the cloud. Remember that standalone services remove the need to manage a server or its associated runtime. The occurrence of an event notification then triggers single-purpose functions. The lightweight Cloud Functions platform then provides the basis for event-driven serverless compute.

Building single-purpose functions that are independently called provides a highly available architecture for building your services. Compounding these functions presents an excellent way to extend cloud services. These single-purpose functions deliver lightweight components that, in turn, can be a more natural way to maintain your application. The simplicity of deployment and maintenance devoid of server provisioning and patch/update cycles can be an effective way to design your solution...