Comprehensive Guide to Building and Deploying Applications on Google Cloud Platform

What we covered

Google Cloud gives you four ways to run the same container and very little guidance on which one you want. The workshop takes one application the whole way through, so every product on the slide has a reason for being there by the time we reach it.

• Getting oriented: projects, billing, regions, and the IAM model, set up once so nothing later fights you.
• The compute decision, laid out honestly: Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, and App Engine, and the question each one is actually the answer to.
• Containerising the app, and why the image is the unit that everything downstream agrees on.
• Building it properly: Cloud Build for the pipeline, Artifact Registry for what comes out of it.
• Deploying to Cloud Run, then the parts people skip: revisions, traffic splitting, and a rollback you have rehearsed.
• Giving the app state: Cloud SQL, Firestore, and Cloud Storage, and how to connect to each without putting a password in the code.
• Putting it on the internet: load balancing, a custom domain, and managed HTTPS.
• Knowing what it is doing: Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, and error reporting, wired up before you need them.
• Keeping it sane: least-privilege service accounts, Secret Manager, and a budget alert so the bill never surprises you.