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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

Automating tasks for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions

In this section of the chapter, we will review numerous tasks related to Cloud Run and Cloud Functions that you can automate using Cloud Build.

Deploying services and jobs to Cloud Run

The first, and perhaps most simple task you can automate is doing a build and deployment of a container image. Earlier in this book, in Chapter 4, Build Configuration and Schema and Chapter 7, Automating Deployment with Terraform and Cloud Build we have reviewed multiple ways to use the Google Cloud APIs, namely the following:

  • gcloud
  • Terraform

Both wrap the APIs that allow developers to use the Google Cloud APIs to manage resources, including Cloud Run services and jobs.

From a developer experience perspective, when considering how to interact with Cloud Run from Cloud Build, it is preferred to use gcloud as it can be easier to reason about for developers looking to keep operational overhead to a minimum. Terraform is written...