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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

Summary

Throughout this chapter, you will have realized that building solutions on Google Cloud does not require a vast amount of knowledge to get to a minimum viable product (MVP). Investing time to be able to iterate over numerous revisions quickly is worthwhile and can lead to significant improvements in the overall design.

Through this chapter, you should now have an appreciation of the nature of the services available. You will find it much easier to think about combining different products, almost like building blocks. In this regard, it is imperative, at the outset, to have a clear view of how the end solution should look. Taking the opportunity to build lightweight functions, as opposed to a monolith, can generally simplify the overall design; however, be sure that this is what your solution requires. As you will now be aware, there are many situations in which serverless...