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Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By : Sandeep Madamanchi
Book Image

Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

By: Sandeep Madamanchi

Overview of this book

DevOps is a set of practices that help remove barriers between developers and system administrators, and is implemented by Google through site reliability engineering (SRE). With the help of this book, you'll explore the evolution of DevOps and SRE, before delving into SRE technical practices such as SLA, SLO, SLI, and error budgets that are critical to building reliable software faster and balance new feature deployment with system reliability. You'll then explore SRE cultural practices such as incident management and being on-call, and learn the building blocks to form SRE teams. The second part of the book focuses on Google Cloud services to implement DevOps via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). You'll learn how to add source code via Cloud Source Repositories, build code to create deployment artifacts via Cloud Build, and push it to Container Registry. Moving on, you'll understand the need for container orchestration via Kubernetes, comprehend Kubernetes essentials, apply via Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and secure the GKE cluster. Finally, you'll explore Cloud Operations to monitor, alert, debug, trace, and profile deployed applications. By the end of this SRE book, you'll be well-versed with the key concepts necessary for gaining Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification with the help of mock tests.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Site Reliability Engineering – A Prescriptive Way to Implement DevOps
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Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD
Appendix: Getting Ready for Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification

Building and creating container images – Cloud Build

Cloud Build is a service to build and create artifacts based on the commits made to source code repositories. The artifacts produced by Cloud Build can either be container or non-container artifacts. Cloud Build can integrate with GCP's CSR as well as popular external repositories such as GitHub and Bitbucket. Key features of Cloud Build include the following:

  • Serverless platform: Cloud Build removes the need to pre-provision servers or pay in advance for computing power or storage required to build the code and produce artifacts. Based on the number of commits being made in parallel, scaling up or scaling down is an inherent process and doesn't require manual intervention.
  • Access to builder images: Cloud Build provides cloud builders, which are pre-baked ready-to-use container images with support for multiple common languages and tools installed. For example, Docker Cloud Builders run the Docker tool...