Google Cloud Container services

Container technologies allow developers to package applications along with their dependencies and runtime environment. Because of this, containers are a natural fit for cloud native applications and have quickly become a cornerstone of modern application management. As we've seen in previous chapters, several Google Cloud Platform products and services encorporate container technologies, including App Engine, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. In addition to these, Google Cloud Platform includes a number of container management services, primarily Google Container Registry and Container Builder.

Google Container Registry – GCR

GCR is a private Docker registry backed by Cloud Storage. GCR supports hosting images in Docker image manifest V2 and OCI formats. Being part of the Google Cloud Platform, GCR provides access control methods backed by Google Cloud IAM, including support for both users and service accounts.

Docker images are associated with registries...