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Published in Jan 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800209794

Length 488 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (3):

Jason Marston

Dheeraj Panyam

Steve (Satish) Sangapu

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Cloud-Native Application Development and App Modernization in Google Cloud

2. Chapter 1: Cloud-Native Application Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: End-to-End Extensible Tooling for Cloud-Native Application Development

4. Chapter 3: Cloud-Native Architecture Patterns and System Architecture Tenets

5. Section 2: Selecting the Right Google Cloud Services

6. Chapter 4: Choosing the Right Compute Option

7. Chapter 5: Choosing the Right Database and Storage

8. Chapter 6: Implementing a Messaging and Scheduling System

9. Chapter 7: Implementing Cloud-Native Security

10. Section 3: Rehosting and Replatforming the Application

11. Chapter 8: Introducing the Legacy Application

12. Chapter 9: The Initial Architecture on Google Compute Engine

13. Chapter 10: Addressing Scalability and Availability

14. Chapter 11: Re-Platforming the Data Layer

15. Chapter 12: Designing the Interim Architecture

16. Chapter 13: Refactoring to Microservices

17. Section 4: Refactoring the Application on Cloud-Native/PaaS and Serverless in Google Cloud

18. Chapter 14: Refactoring the Frontend and Exposing REST Services

19. Chapter 15: Handling Eventual Consistency with the Compensation Pattern

20. Chapter 16: Orchestrating Your Application with Google Kubernetes Engine

21. Chapter 17: Going Serverless with Google App Engine

22. Chapter 18: Future Proofing Your App with Google Cloud Run

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Appendix A: Choosing the Right Migration Strategy

1. Appendix B: Application Modernization Solutions

Cloud Run

Google Cloud Run is Google's serverless platform for containers. Being serverless, Google Cloud Run abstracts away all the infrastructure management concerns, allowing us to focus on what is important, which is running the containers that host the microservices for our application. It was built using the Knative open source project, created by Google, and is designed to provide the environment in which to run serverless applications using Kubernetes. The next section examines Knative in more detail.

The Knative stack

The idea of Knative is to simplify the configuration and deployment of containers to Kubernetes by being idiomatic. This means that instead of having to declare manifests for Pods, Stateless Sets, Deployments, Horizontal Pod Autoscalers, Services, Ingress, and so on, these things are set up by default.

The following diagram illustrates the Knative stack:

Figure 18.1 – Knative primitives

In the preceding diagram, we...

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