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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

Defining your own triggers

Pre-built integrations are very helpful for getting started quickly. However, they are not the only way to integrate with Cloud Build. You can leverage other mechanisms such as a manual or webhook trigger in order to integrate with existing systems or platforms that currently are not yet pre-built in Cloud Build.

Webhook triggers

An example we will be running through is a webhook trigger and we will be using GitLab as an example. Native integration with GitLab offerings are on the way as noted earlier in the chapter.

Figure 5.3 – An example of webhook trigger creation

Let’s break down the webhook URL:

  • Domain: cloudbuild.googleapis.com
  • Google Project ID
  • Trigger Name: packt-cloudbuild-gitlab-trigger
  • Type: webhook
  • Key: generated API key
  • Secret: generated secret when specifying New or an existing secret such as a password

In the example URL noted previously, we have a standard domain...