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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

Using the default pool

At its initial General Availability (GA) launch in 2017, Cloud Build was designed to provide users with a simple interface and fully managed experience in Google Cloud when building container images and other artifacts such as Go executables or Java archives.

Note

Cloud Build was initially launched under the name Container Builder in 2017, underscoring its simple and focused purpose to provide end users with a way to automate builds.

From its inception, Cloud Build has aimed to ensure the following:

  • Users could create builds and triggers for builds by interacting with Google’s API or user interface (UI).
  • Users would not need to create, patch, scale, or manage the worker machines that run builds.
  • Users would have pre-built integration with logging and monitoring to introspect builds.

Cloud Build first accomplished this experience by providing users with the first mode for workers in Cloud Build: the default pool.

The default...