Application Development with Cloud Run (ADCR)

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: Diving Deeper into Cloud Run

• Container lifecycle
  • Idle vs serving
  • Shutdown lifecycle hook
• Cold starts
  • Min instances
• Container readiness
• The service resource and what it describes
• Configuring memory limits and CPU allocation
• Deploying a new revision
• Traffic steering (tagging, gradual rollouts)

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.