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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

Adjusting the default configuration for the build steps

In addition to defining the container image and arguments for a build step, there are other configurations you might need to customize in order to carry out the tasks in that step in a specific manner.

These might be variables you want to set in the execution environment, making specific secrets available to the build step, or writing to a specific directory on the worker carrying out your build step.

The build step stanza has additional fields that cover cases such as the following:

  • env
  • secretEnv
  • timeout
  • dir

Let’s start with the env field – this provides a way to set environment variables for the cloud builder in which your tasks execute. This provides a way for you to provide multiple environment variables that you might want to pass into the container that is running your tasks in a build step.

Note

Interestingly, env and secretEnv can be defined not only for an individual...