Chapter 1, Introducing Continuous Delivery and Software Supply Chain Security, describes continuous delivery principles and some of the practices and technical capabilities that drive the ability to implement them. The chapter also provides an overview of the security threats that a software supply chain can be exposed to and some practices that can mitigate them.

Chapter 2, Using Skaffold for Development, Build, and Deploy, describes Skaffold and how you can use it to test your application continuously while you develop it, build the container image containing your application, execute tests, and deploy it on different Kubernetes clusters.

Chapter 3, Developing and Testing with Cloud Code, demonstrates how to use Cloud Code, a Google-provided IDE add-on, to optimize the development flow state and feedback loops, and how to use Duet AI to get help while coding.

Chapter 4, Securing Your Code with Cloud Workstations, describes how an administrator can preconfigure Cloud Workstations, fully managed developer workstations hosted in Google Cloud, and how developers can use those workstations to work on code using their preferred IDE.

Chapter 5, Automating Continuous Integration with Cloud Build, describes Cloud Build, a managed service used to automate building artifacts, as well as other continuous integration (CI) tasks, and how you can use Cloud Build to build your application from source to a deployable container image.

Chapter 6, Securely Store Your Software on Artifact Registry, describes Artifact Registry, the Google-managed container and software artifact repository, and shows how to use it to store container images, application dependencies, and all of your software artifacts, scan them for vulnerabilities, and store vulnerabilities’ metadata.

Chapter 7, Exploring Runtimes – GKE, GKE Enterprise, and Cloud Run, describes the main runtime environments into which you can deploy your applications using Google Cloud continuous delivery tooling. This chapter includes Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) hosted on GCP as well as Cloud Run, and on-premises Kubernetes or hosted on other hyperscale cloud platforms.

Chapter 8, Automating Software Delivery Using Cloud Deploy, describes Cloud Deploy, a service you can use to automate how your application is delivered to a predetermined sequence of runtime environments. You’ll learn how to create the software delivery pipeline that guides your application delivery to those target environments.

Chapter 9, Securing Your Runtimes with Binary Authorization, describes Binary Authorization, a service that lets you configure policies to control the execution of container-based applications on Google Cloud runtimes such as GKE and Cloud Run.

Chapter 10, Demonstrating an End-to-End Software Delivery Pipeline, shows how to use all the Google Cloud tools described in the previous chapters to create and run an end-to-end pipeline from code to production for an example application.

Chapter 11, Integrating with Your Organization's Workflows, demonstrates an example of how to integrate your pipeline with external systems present in your organization, such as source-code management systems or workflow management tools.

Chapter 12, Diving into Best Practices and Trends in Continuous Delivery, describes some best practices for continuous delivery on Google Cloud that we didn’t cover exhaustively in previous chapters. This chapter also provides some hints on future improvements, directions, and developments in software delivery capabilities.