Section 2: Google Cloud Services to Implement DevOps via CI/CD

The core focus of this section is to deep dive into Google Cloud services that are critical to manage source code using Cloud Source Repositories, build code and create build artifacts, push artifacts to a registry, deploy the artifacts as containerized applications, orchestrate these applications in a cluster through managed compute services, secure the clusters, and finally, implement observability on the deployed applications through a suite of services focused on operations.

The section introduces key features around each of the core services along with hands-on labs as needed. All the labs throughout the section are connected, to provide a holistic understanding. The section concludes with SLO monitoring, a feature in Cloud Operations that allows tracking SRE technical practices for an application deployed to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Managing...