To get the most out of this book

It would be best if you have a basic understanding of how to navigate around Google Cloud, including how you navigate to the control panel of products provided, and also how to open Cloud Shell.

While the majority of the activities in this book require a Google Cloud project, an alternative is to use a sandbox environment such as Qwiklabs (https://qwiklabs.com). Using a sandbox will ensure that any changes you may make do not impact your regular Google Cloud project.

The majority of the chapters include example code that is available via the following link:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Serverless-Computing-with-Google-Cloud-Platform

This repository contains the baseline components required for the sections as well as a solution sub-directory.

Undertake all of the end-of-chapter quizzes, and address any wrong answers before moving on to the next chapter. You must know why something is the answer, rather than just knowing that it is the answer.

The book is split into four parts. To gain an overview of a particular product, I suggest reading the sections on App Engine (chapters 1-2), Cloud Functions (chapters 3-6), and Cloud Run (chapters 7-10). To see a working example of how a serverless workload is deployed on Google Cloud, please refer to the examples provided in chapters 11 and 12.

Download the example code files

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The code bundle for the book is also hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Serverless-Computing-with-Google-Cloud. In case there's an update to the code, it will be updated on the existing GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781838827991_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "In Command Prompt, type hostname and press the Enter key."

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on screen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "Select Properties from the context menu."

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.