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Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build

By : Anthony Bushong, Kent Hua
Book Image

Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build

By: Anthony Bushong, Kent Hua

Overview of this book

When adopting cloud infrastructure, you are often looking to modernize the automation of workflows such as continuous integration and software delivery. Minimizing operational overhead via fully managed solutions such as Cloud Build can be tough. Moreover, learning Cloud Build’s API and build schema, scalability, security, and integrating Cloud Build with other external systems can be challenging. This book helps you to overcome these challenges by cementing a Google Cloud Build foundation. The book starts with an introduction to Google Cloud Build and explains how it brings value via automation. You will then configure the architecture and environment in which builds run while learning how to execute these builds. Next, you will focus on writing and configuring fully featured builds and executing them securely. You will also review Cloud Build's functionality with practical applications and set up a secure delivery pipeline for GKE. Moving ahead, you will learn how to manage safe roll outs of cloud infrastructure with Terraform. Later, you will build a workflow from local source to production in Cloud Run. Finally, you will integrate Cloud Build with external systems while leveraging Cloud Deploy to manage roll outs. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to automate workflows securely by leveraging the principles of Google Cloud Build.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1: The Fundamentals
5
Part 2: Deconstructing a Build
9
Part 3: Practical Applications
14
Part 4: Looking Forward

Creating your build infrastructure and deployment target

The deployment target in this example is a GKE cluster. Cloud Build will implement our software delivery pipeline as a build, performing both the building of container images and the release of Kubernetes manifests to run the container images in the GKE cluster.

Before we dive into how you can secure this software delivery to GKE from Cloud Build, we should review the aspects of Kubernetes and GKE that are relevant to our software delivery processes.

Kubernetes (https://kubernetes.io) is a popular open source software (OSS) project owned by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) (https://www.cncf.io) that is responsible for running containerized applications across numerous machines.

At a high level, it achieves this via software that acts as a control plane coordinating the lifecycle of containerized applications across a set of servers registered with the control plane called nodes. These nodes can be shared...