For deploying and testing the serverless app that we will develop in this chapter, you will need a Google Cloud Project. Let's look at the process of setting up a Google Cloud Platform account. The Google Cloud Platform offers a 12-month free trial and also gives you $300 credit to get started. If you spend the $300 credit in the first 12 months, then you will need to upgrade to a paid account to continue to use Google Cloud Platform services.
You can sign up for the Google Cloud Platform using your Google account at https://console.cloud.google.com/freetrial.
To be able to create a Google Cloud Platform account, you will need a Google account. Once you have created the Google Cloud Platform account, a new project needs to be created so that you can start building apps to run on the Google Cloud Platform environment.
Once you have submitted all the...
