Application Development with Cloud Run

After completing the Application Development with Cloud Run course, students will be able to:

• Gain detailed understanding of Cloud Run, Google Cloud’s fully managed compute platform for deploying and scaling containerized applications quickly and securely.
• Write and migrate code your way using your favorite languages (Go, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, and more).
• Secure service to service communication based on service identities and grant applications only the permissions they need.
• Learn how to build highly available applications with low end-user latency, globally.
• Learn how to connect to, and persist data in the managed database offerings on Google Cloud.
• Understand how abstracting away all infrastructure management creates a simple developer experience.

Cloud Developers, API Developers
 

• Familiarity with Linux commands and command line interface.
• Basic understanding of Google Cloud.
• Basic understanding of networking.
• Basic understanding of one or more programming languages like Go, Python, Java, Ruby, or Node.js.
• Basic understanding of shell scripts, YAML, JSON, HTTP, and TLS.

The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs. Module 1: Introducing Application Development with Cloud Run

• A general understanding of Cloud Run.
• Understand how how high availability, low end-user latency and developer productivity are important architectural drivers for web based applications today.
• Understand the advantages of serverless on Google Cloud.

Module 2: Understanding Cloud Run

• Understand Container Images and Containers.
• Understand how Cloud Run is different from an always-on server.
• Implement the deployment of a container image to Cloud Run.
• Understand auto-scaling and on-demand containers.

Module 3: Building Container Images

• Deeply understand what is inside a container image.
• Package an application into a container image with Buildpacks.
• Understand that Dockerfiles are a lower-level and more transparent alternative to Buildpacks.

Module 4: Building Container Images

• Understand the advantages of the shutdown lifecycle hook.
• Understand how to avoid request queuing.
• Implement new versions of an application.
• Implement gradual traffic migration.

Module 5: Configuring Service Identity and Authorization

• Understand that every action on a Cloud resource is actually an API call.
• Understand how and why to limit the permissions in your Cloud Run service to only specific and necessary API calls.
• Understand the process needed to make the default permissions of a Cloud API more secure.
• Use the client libraries to call other Google Cloud services.

Module 6: Serving Requests

• Use Cloud CDN to improve the reliability and performance of an application.
• Use path-based routing to combine multiple applications on one domain.
• Route incoming requests to the Cloud Run service closest to clients.

Module 7: Using Inbound and Outbound Access Control

• Connecting your project to resources with a private IP.
• Implementing controls to prevent outbound traffic to dangerous or unwanted hosts.
• Implementing filters for inbound traffic using content-based rules.
• Implementing controlled access to only specific service accounts.
• Implement dialogs using input and output contexts.

Module 8: Persisting Data

• Understand how to connect your application with Cloud SQL to store relational data.
• Use a VPC Connector to reach a private Memorystore instance.
• Understand how to connect with Cloud Storage, Spanner and Firestore.

Module 9: Implementing Service-to-Service Communication

• Using Cloud Pub/Sub to send messages between services.
• Discovering the URL of other Cloud Run services.
• Receiving events from other Google Cloud services.
• Processing background tasks asynchronously.

Module 10: Orchestrating and Automating Serverless Workflows

• Understand the capabilities of Cloud Workflows.
• Learn how to model a simple workflow with steps and conditional jumps.
• Integrating Cloud Run with Cloud Workflows.
• Understand how to invoke workflows.