Cloud Native Automation with Google Cloud Build: Easily automate tasks in a fully managed, scalable, and secure platform

Written by two Google Cloud experts, this book will help you to create a concrete foundation of Cloud Build so that you can define workflows and pipelines as builds in Google Cloud Build

Key Features

• Learn Cloud Build’s API and build configuration/schema
• Apply scalability and security best practices for using Cloud Build
• Integrate Cloud Build with external systems critical to workflows

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Get started with Cloud Build the right way
• Define new workflows using the Cloud Build schema
• Implement a secure build and deployment environment for GKE
• Automate serverless workflows for Cloud Run and Cloud Functions
• Integrate Cloud Build with source code management and artifact stores
• Develop a Cloud Build strategy for your organization

Who this book is for

This book is for cloud engineers and DevOps engineers who manage cloud environments and desire to automate workflows in a fully managed, scalable, and secure platform. You are expected to have an understanding of cloud fundamentals, software delivery, and containerization fundamentals to get the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing Google Cloud Build
2. Configuring Cloud Build Workers
3. Getting Started – Which Build Information Is Available to Me?
4. Build Configuration and Schema
5. Triggering Builds
6. Managing Environment Security
7. Automating Deployment with Terraform and Cloud Build
8. Securing Software Delivery to GKE with Cloud Build
9. Automating Serverless with Cloud Build
10. Running Operations for Cloud Build in Production
11. Looking Forward in Cloud Build

Anthony Bushong is a senior developer relations engineer at Google. Formerly a field engineer and practice lead for Kubernetes and GKE, he worked with companies implementing automation for their Kubernetes infrastructure in Cloud Build – since version 1.3! He now focuses on distilling those experiences into multiple formats of technical content – all with the goal of teaching and enabling people, no matter their background or experience.

Kent Hua is a global solutions manager focused on application modernization. He has years of experience with customers modernizing enterprise applications focusing on both business and technical challenges on-premises and the public cloud. Over the years, he has helped organizations decompose monoliths and implement microservice patterns wherever applicable into containers running on Kubernetes. While enabling these organizations, he has identified culture and the automation of processes as critical elements in their modernization journeys.