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In this section, you will learn about App Engine and the features that make it such a compelling product for scalable web applications. The initial discussion will provide an introduction to the product and highlight the key features, for example, the differences between App Engine Standard and App Engine Flex, what actions task queues perform, and how App Engine seamlessly handles application versioning.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introducing App Engine
Chapter 2, Developing with App Engine

Key benefits

Use real-world use cases to understand the core functionalities of Functions as a Service

Explore the potential of Cloud Run, Knative, Cloud Build, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Storage

Get to grips with architectural decisions, seamless deployments, containerization, and serverless solutions

Description

Google Cloud's serverless platform allows organizations to scale fully managed solutions without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. With this book, you will learn how to design, develop, and deploy full stack serverless apps on Google Cloud. The book starts with a quick overview of the Google Cloud console, its features, user interface (UI), and capabilities. After getting to grips with the Google Cloud interface and its features, you will explore the core aspects of serverless products such as Cloud Run, Cloud Functions and App Engine. You will also learn essential features such as version control, containerization, and identity and access management with the help of real-world use cases. Later, you will understand how to incorporate continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) techniques for serverless applications. Toward the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with how key technologies such as Knative enable Cloud Run to be hosted on multiple platforms including Kubernetes and VMware. By the end of this book, you will have become proficient in confidently developing, managing, and deploying containerized applications on Google Cloud.

What you will learn

Explore the various options for deploying serverless workloads on Google Cloud Determine the appropriate serverless product for your application use case Integrate multiple lightweight functions to build scalable and resilient services Increase productivity through build process automation Understand how to secure serverless workloads using service accounts Build a scalable architecture with Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Run

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