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DevOps on Google Cloud: from a commit to a GKE rollout

Google Cloud's managed delivery chain: Cloud Build runs the build, Artifact Registry stores the image and scans it, and Cloud Deploy owns the promotion between environments, with GKE as the runtime. Each environment is its own project. Written for someone who works only in Google Cloud.

GitHubCloud BuildArtifact RegistryCloud DeployGKE / Cloud RunSecret ManagerCloud MonitoringIAM

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Here is what's inside:

  • The Google Cloud toolchain
  • How a release reaches the cluster
  • A delivery pipeline with targets
  • Inside the pipeline, stage by stage
  • Inside a Cloud Deploy rollout
  • What each Google Cloud service is for
  • Where Google Cloud pipelines go wrong
  • The interview talk track
  • What I'd improve next

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