Summary

In this chapter, we discussed two key services that are central to building a CI/CD workflow in Google. These are Cloud Build and Container Registry. Cloud Build is critical to build application code and output container images as build artifacts. Container Registry manages these build artifacts using the concepts of artifact management. The chapter went into in-depth details with respect to each of the services' key constructs and concluded with a hands-on lab where users can automatically deploy code to Cloud Run when a code change is detected by a configured trigger.

Google strongly recommends deploying applications using containers specifically against GKE, which is a key container deployment option apart from App Engine flexible and Cloud Run. The key concepts of GKE will be discussed in the next three chapters, which include understanding the core features of native Kubernetes, learning about GKE-specific features, and topics specific to hardening a GKE cluster...