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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By : Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS
Book Image

Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

By: Ted Hunter, Steven Porter, Legorie Rajan PS

Overview of this book

GCP is a cloud computing platform with a wide range of products and services that enable you to build and deploy cloud-hosted applications. This Learning Path will guide you in using GCP and designing, deploying, and managing applications on Google Cloud. You will get started by learning how to use App Engine to access Google's scalable hosting and build software that runs on this framework. With the help of Google Compute Engine, you’ll be able to host your workload on virtual machine instances. The later chapters will help you to explore ways to implement authentication and security, Cloud APIs, and command-line and deployment management. As you hone your skills, you’ll understand how to integrate your new applications with various data solutions on GCP, including Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Cloud Storage. Following this, the book will teach you how to streamline your workflow with tools, including Source Repositories, Container Builder, and Stackdriver. You'll also understand how to deploy and debug services with IntelliJ, implement continuous delivery pipelines, and configure robust monitoring and alerts for your production systems. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll be well versed with GCP’s development tools and be able to develop, deploy, and manage highly scalable and reliable applications. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Google Cloud Platform for Developers Ted Hunter and Steven Porter • Google Cloud Platform Cookbook by Legorie Rajan PS
Table of Contents (29 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Developing Cloud Functions


There are two primary ways to develop and test Cloud Functions: locally using the Cloud Functions simulator and directly in the cloud via the Cloud Console.

Using the Cloud Console

The simplest way to get started is by using the Google Cloud Console. Firstly, navigate to Navigation menu | Cloud Functions. If you haven't already, you'll need to enable the Cloud Functions API, which can be done from this page by clicking Enable API. Once enabled, click Create Function to get started.

The function creation page allows developers to specify a function name, memory allocation, the function trigger type, and code to execute. With the Source code option set to Inline editor, a simple example function will be provided in the editor pane based on the type of trigger selected. This serves as a good starting point, and we can create our first function by selecting HTTP trigger and using the following code:

exports.hello = (req, res) => {
  name = req.query.name || 'unknown...