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Docker for Serverless Applications
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Docker for Serverless Applications

by Chanwit Kaewkasi
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced
250 pages
5h 42m
English
Packt Publishing
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Google Cloud Functions

The serverless computing service offered by Google Inc is called Google Cloud Functions (GCF).

We basically refer to it as GCF in this section. Like other serverless platforms, GCF provides both execution environment and the SDK to help us develop and manage the entire life cycle of our function. It provides an SDK to help us get started with the framework. The main language supported by GCF is JavaScript and there is a Node.js Docker image for us to use. With Docker, it is convenient to build a function. When about to deploy, it is relatively easy to deploy it with the Google Cloud CLI tool. It is natural that GCF will allow us to connect to other Google-based services efficiently:

Figure 3.3: A common IoT use case ...
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