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Hands-On Serverless Computing

You're reading from   Hands-On Serverless Computing Build, run and orchestrate serverless applications using AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions

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Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788836654
Length 350 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kuldeep Chowhan Kuldeep Chowhan
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Kuldeep Chowhan
Kuldeep Chowhan is a Principal Software Developer at Expedia Inc. He has been involved in building tools and platforms for the last 5+ years at Expedia to help teams at Expedia consume different AWS Services. Over the past few years, he has been focusing on Serverless technologies on AWS (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.,), Node.js, and React. He has built a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool for automated creation of a source code, CI/CD pipeline, a fully automated pipeline to deploy Docker containers/AWS Lambdas. He is passionate about Serverless technologies. CI/CD, DevOps, and microservice architecture for applications.
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
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Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. What is Serverless Computing? FREE CHAPTER 2. Development Environment, Tools, and SDKs 3. Getting Started with AWS Lambda 4. Triggers and Events for AWS Lambda 5. Your First Serverless Application on AWS 6. Serverless Orchestration on AWS 7. Getting Started with Azure Functions 8. Triggers and Bindings for Azure Functions 9. Your First Serverless Application on Azure 10. Getting Started with Google Cloud Functions 11. Triggers and Events for Google Cloud Functions 12. Your First Serverless Application on Google Cloud 13. Reference Architecture for a Web App 14. Reference Architecture for a Real-time File Processing 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Your first serverless app (on a local workstation)

In the previous section, we learned about creating Google Cloud Functions using the Google Cloud Console. In this section, we will learn about creating Google Cloud Functions on your local workstation using Visual Studio Code and uploading the code to the Google Cloud Platform with gcloud CLI.

As part of Chapter 2, Development Environment and SDKs, we learned about installing Visual Studio Code on your operating system (macOS or Windows). Please make sure Visual Studio Code is installed. If it is not installed, please refer to the instructions in Chapter 2, Development Environment and SDKs, and install it.

gcloud CLI

Before we start creating Google Cloud Functions on your local workstation, let's learn about the following:

  • What is gcloud?
  • How to install gcloud CLI
  • Configuring gcloud CLI

What is gcloud?

The gcloud is a command-line interface designed to interact with the Google Cloud Platform. You can use gcloud to perform lots of administrative...

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Kuldeep Chowhan is a Principal Software Developer at Expedia Inc. He has been involved in building tools and platforms for the last 5+ years at Expedia to help teams at Expedia consume different AWS Services. Over the past few years, he has been focusing on Serverless technologies on AWS (AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, etc.,), Node.js, and React. He has built a Platform as a Service (PaaS) tool for automated creation of a source code, CI/CD pipeline, a fully automated pipeline to deploy Docker containers/AWS Lambdas. He is passionate about Serverless technologies. CI/CD, DevOps, and microservice architecture for applications.
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