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Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build
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To properly introduce Google Cloud Build and the value it provides to its users, it’s important to review the value that automation brings to IT organizations for common workflows such as cloud infrastructure provisioning and software delivery.
Automating these tasks may be helpful in increasing developer productivity for organizations; doing so with a managed service enables this productivity at a lower cost of operation, allowing individuals and teams to focus on the business task at hand, rather than managing all the infrastructure that runs the automation. There has been an increase in automation needs for processing AI/ML types of workloads (https://cloud.google.com/architecture/mlops-continuous-delivery-and-automation-pipelines-in-machine-learning), which are beyond the typical developer workflows. We will be focusing on the developer automation workflow (that is, continuous integration) aspects of Cloud Build in this book.
In this chapter, we will review Google Cloud Build through this lens, specifically discussing the following: