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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

Developing a Cloud Functions-based application

To help build our understanding of the services previously discussed, we will develop a small application to utilize these services. Our Cloud Function will present a simple web page, in which some web-based information displays the output. To illustrate the power of each of the functions previously discussed, each of the Requirement milestones in the following table will alter and improve the overall design incrementally.

Our application will be developed with Google Cloud Functions and will display some information on the screen. Incidentally, if you need to host something like a static website, this can quickly be done by using a GCS bucket. Storage buckets are very versatile. For more information on how to implement them, check the documentation at https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/static-website.

The application we will develop...