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Developing
07
and Deploying
in the Cloud
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Develop and deploy applications
Develop Deploy
Many users develop impressive applications using Google Cloud’s products and
services. And when an app is ready, Google Cloud can also be used to deploy it.
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Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
01 Development in the cloud
02 Deployment: Infrastructure as Code
In this section of the course, we’ll explore Google Cloud methods for development in
the cloud, which includes Cloud Source Repositories, Cloud Functions, and Terraform.
After that, we’ll look at deployment with infrastructure as code.
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Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
01 Development in the cloud
02 Deployment: Infrastructure as Code
Let’s begin with development in the cloud.
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Developers on Google Cloud can use Git repositories
Store
Run their own Git instances
Version
Use a hosted-Git provider
Manage
Git repositories
Many Google Cloud customers use Git repositories to store, version, and manage their
source code trees. That means they either run their own Git instances, which is a
great option if total control is required, or they use a hosted-Git provider, which means
less work if total control isn’t required.
But what if there were a third option, where you could keep code private to a Google
Cloud project and use IAM permissions to protect it, but not have to maintain the Git
instance yourself?
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Cloud Source Repositories supports Compute products
Git repositories App Engine Compute Engine
That's available with Cloud Source Repositories.
Cloud Source Repositories provides full-featured Git repositories hosted on Google
Cloud that support the collaborative development of any application or service,
including those that run on App Engine and Compute Engine.
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Cloud Source Repositories supports diagnostic tools
Diagnostics
and browsing
tools
Examples:
GitHub BitBucket Debugger Error Reporting
With Cloud Source Repositories, you can have any number of private Git repositories.
This allows code associated with a cloud project to be organized the way you choose.
It also allows Google Cloud diagnostics tools, like Debugger and Error Reporting, to
use the code from Git repositories to track down issues to specific errors in deployed
code without slowing down your users.
If your code is already in GitHub or BitBucket repositories, it can be migrated into your
cloud project and used just like any other repository, including browsing and
diagnostics.
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Integrated cloud functions handle application events
Convert format
Compute Convert thumbnail size
Store new files
Integrated function
Many applications contain event-driven parts. For example, maybe you have an
application that lets users upload images. When that event takes place, the image
might need to be processed in a few different ways, like converting the image to a
standard format, converting a thumbnail into different sizes, and storing each new file
in a repository.
You could integrate this function into your application, but then you’d have to provide
compute resources for it–whether it happens once a millisecond or once a day.
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Cloud Functions allows your code to respond to events
Lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution
Allows you to create small, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events without the
need to manage a server or a runtime environment
Use these functions to construct applications from bite-sized business logic and connect and
extend cloud services
Billed to the nearest 100 milliseconds, and only while your code is running
Supports writing source code in a number of programming languages, including Node.js, Python,
Go, Java, .Net Core, Ruby, and PHP
Events from Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub can trigger Cloud Functions asynchronously, or use HTTP
invocation for synchronous execution
With Cloud Functions, you could write a single-purpose function that completes the
necessary image manipulations, and then arrange for it to automatically run whenever
a new image is uploaded.
Cloud Functions is a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution that
allows you to create small, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events
without the need to manage a server or a runtime environment. You can use these
functions to construct applications from bite-sized business logic. You can also use
Cloud Functions to connect and extend cloud services. You are billed to the nearest
100 milliseconds, but only while your code is running.
Cloud Functions supports writing source code in a number of programming
languages. These include Node.js, Python, Go, Java, .Net Core, Ruby, and PHP. For
more information about the supported specific versions, refer to the runtimes
documentation.
Events from Cloud Storage and Pub/Sub can trigger Cloud Functions asynchronously,
or you can use HTTP invocation for synchronous execution.
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Developing and Deploying in the Cloud
01 Development in the cloud
02 Deployment: Infrastructure as Code
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Manually set up an environment in Google Cloud
01
Updating commands if you want
to change the environment
02
Writing new commands if you
want to clone an environment
Creating an environment in Google Cloud can mean lots of work–like setting up a
compute network and storage resources, and then keeping track of their
configurations.
This process can be done manually by writing the commands you need to set up your
environment the way you want. However, this is labor intensive, and requires updating
commands if you want to change the environment, or manually writing new
commands if you want to clone an environment.
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Using templates is a more efficient way to
Terraform
Template
It’s more efficient to use a template. Using a template allows you to write the
specifications for your application environment in the same way you’d write a
configuration file, but your template can then be deployed in a scaled environment to
quickly create as many identical application environments as needed. This can be
done with Terraform.
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Terraform templates describe your environment
Create a template file using HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) that
describes what the components of the environment should look like.
Terraform uses that template to determine the actions needed to create the
environment your template describes.
Use Terraform to update the environment to match the change. Terraform
Store and version-control Terraform templates in Cloud Source Repositories.
To use Terraform, you create a template file using HashiCorp Configuration Language
(HCL) that describes what the components of the environment should look like.
Terraform then uses that template to determine the actions needed to create the
environment your template describes. If you need to change the environment, you can
edit your template and then use Terraform to update the environment to match the
change.
You can store and version-control your Terraform templates in Cloud Source
Repositories.
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Module Quiz
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Quiz | Question 1
Question
What is the advantage of putting the event-driven components of your application into
Cloud Functions?
A. Cloud Functions means that processing always happens free of charge.
B. Cloud Functions handles scaling these components seamlessly.
C. Cloud Functions can be written in C# or C++
Cloud Functions eliminates the need to use a separate service to trigger application
D.
events.
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Quiz | Question 1
Answer
What is the advantage of putting the event-driven components of your application into
Cloud Functions?
A. Cloud Functions means that processing always happens free of charge.
B. Cloud Functions handles scaling these components seamlessly.
C. Cloud Functions can be written in C# or C++
Cloud Functions eliminates the need to use a separate service to trigger application
D.
events.
What is the advantage of putting the event-driven components of your application into
Cloud Functions?
A: Cloud Functions means that processing always happens free of charge.
Feedback: Sorry, that's not correct. Although Cloud Functions offers a perpetual
monthly free tier, use beyond the free tier is billed in 100-millisecond increments, after
a free tier. See the pricing documentation for more information.
B: Cloud Functions handles scaling these components seamlessly.
Feedback: Correct! Your code executes whenever an event triggers it, no matter
whether it happens rarely or many times per second. That means you don't have to
provision compute resources to handle these operations.
C: Cloud Functions can be written in C# or C++
Feedback: Sorry, that's not correct. Cloud Functions are written in Javascript
(Node.js), Python, or Go.
D: Cloud Functions eliminates the need to use a separate service to trigger application
events.
Feedback: Sorry, that is not correct. Cloud Functions responds to events, but does
not trigger them. It can respond to events created from Google Cloud services such
as Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Firestore.
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Quiz | Question 2
Question
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Cloud Source Repositories?
They don't want to host their own git instance, but they do want to integrate with
A.
IAM permissions.
They want to host and manage their own git instance, and they do want to integrate
B.
with IAM permissions.
They don't want to host their own git instance, and they don't want to integrate with
C.
IAM permissions.
They want to host and manage their own git instance, but they don't want to
D.
integrate with IAM permissions.
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Quiz | Question 2
Answer
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Cloud Source Repositories?
They don't want to host their own git instance, but they do want to integrate with
A.
IAM permissions.
They want to host and manage their own git instance, and they do want to integrate
B.
with IAM permissions.
They don't want to host their own git instance, and they don't want to integrate with
C.
IAM permissions.
They want to host and manage their own git instance, but they don't want to
D.
integrate with IAM permissions.
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Cloud Source Repositories?
A: They don't want to host their own git instance, and they do want to integrate with
IAM permissions.
Feedback: Correct!
B: They want to host and manage their own git instance, and they want to integrate
with IAM permissions.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Development in the Cloud."
C: They don't want to host their own git instance, and they don't want to integrate with
IAM permissions.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Development in the Cloud."
D: They want to host and manage their own git instance, and they don't want to
integrate with IAM permissions.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Development in the Cloud."
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Quiz | Question 3
Question
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Terraform?
A. It is a version control system for your Google Cloud infrastructure layout.
B. It is an infrastructure management system for Kubernetes pods.
It enforces maximum resource utilization and spending limits on your Google Cloud
C.
resources.
D. It is an infrastructure management system for Google Cloud resources.
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Quiz | Question 3
Answer
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Terraform?
A. It is a version control system for your Google Cloud infrastructure layout.
B. It is an infrastructure management system for Kubernetes pods.
It enforces maximum resource utilization and spending limits on your Google Cloud
C.
resources.
D. It is an infrastructure management system for Google Cloud resources.
Why might a Google Cloud customer choose to use Terraform?
A: Terraform is a version control system for your Google Cloud infrastructure layout.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Deployment: Infrastructure as code”.
B: Terraform is an infrastructure management system for Kubernetes pods.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Deployment: Infrastructure as code”.
C: Terraform enforces maximum resource utilization and spending limits on your
Google Cloud resources.
Feedback: Incorrect. Review the lecture "Deployment: Infrastructure as code”.
D: Terraform is an infrastructure management system for Google Cloud resources.
Feedback: Correct!
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Lab Intro
Automating deployment of infrastructure
in Google Cloud using Terraform
In this lab, you create a Terraform
configuration with a module to automate
the deployment of Google Cloud
infrastructure. Specifically, you deploy one
auto mode network with a firewall rule and
two VM instances.
