Introducing Application Development with Cloud Run

Understanding Cloud Run

Building container Images

• The contents of a container image (deep dive)
• There are two ways to build container images
• Cloud Run supports both source-based and a container image based workflow
• The most important considerations of building a secure container image
• Container lifecycle
• Cold starts
• Container readiness
• The service resource and what it describes
• Configuring memory limits and CPU allocation
• Deploying a new revision
• Traffic steering (tagging, gradual rollouts)

Configuring Service Identity and Authorization

• Cloud IAM
• Cloud Run

Serving Request

• Custom domains
• Global load Balancer
• Benefits and drawbacks of GLB over customer domain
• Types of GLB Backends
• Multi-region load balancing
• Multi-regional applications challenges
• Cloud CDN

Using Inbound and Outbound Access Control

• Ingress settings
• Cloud Armor
• Using Cloud IAM to protect services
• VPC, VPC Access Connector
• Egress settings

Persisting Data

• Understanding why you need to store data externally when running a workload on Cloud Run.
• Connect with Cloud SQL from Cloud Run
• Managing concurrency as a way to safeguard performance (understand why and when)
• Connecting with Memorystore
• VPC Connector
• Briefly introduce Cloud Storage, Firestore and Cloud Spanner, while reinforcing how the client libraries use the built-in service account to connect
• Multi-region data storage (and what Spanner and Firestore can do for you)

Implementing Service-to-Service Communication

• Understanding Cloud Pub/Sub
• How to asynchronously schedule a background task on a different service
• Cloud Tasks, and when to choose it over Cloud Pub/Sub
• Benefits of using Pub/Sub to pass messages over making sync RPC requests
• Learn about services in Google Cloud with a built-in integration to push events to Pub/Sub (Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage, IOT Core, BigQuery)
• Cloud Scheduler to invoke services on a schedule.
• CloudEvents
• EventArc, and how to consume Audit logs

Orchestrating and Automating Serverless Workflows

• Conceptual overview of Cloud Workflows
• Invoking and passing parameters
• Understand steps and jumps
• Defining, using and passing values with variables
• Using the switch statement to add logic
• Workflow visualization
• Calling HTTPS endpoints
• Calling an authenticated Cloud Run service
• Example: polling API for completion