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Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing with Google Cloud Build, deploy, and containerize apps using Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and cloud-native technologies

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838827991
Length 320 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: App Engine
2. Introducing App Engine FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing with App Engine 4. Section 2: Google Cloud Functions
5. Introducing Lightweight Functions 6. Developing Cloud Functions 7. Exploring Functions as a Service 8. Cloud Functions Labs 9. Section 3: Google Cloud Run
10. Introducing Cloud Run 11. Developing with Cloud Run 12. Developing with Cloud Run for Anthos 13. Cloud Run Labs 14. Section 4: Building a Serverless Workload
15. Building a PDF Conversion Service 16. Consuming Third-Party Data via a REST API 17. Assessments 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building a container

Building a container for an application should be a familiar activity at this point in this book. For the most part, when building an image, we can normally rely on existing knowledge to determine how to incorporate a runtime language or package. From a personal perspective, I like to containerize applications as it provides a consistent and well-understood interface. The isolation from system updates and other changes impacting an application is a very common and annoying aspect of maintaining a computer.

At this point, the assumption is that building images is second nature and the next challenge relates to deploying the containers. What your container is actually meant to do will probably influence the complexity of the running container. For example, running a container with a graphical user interface (potentially) presents more issues than one using a...

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