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Google Launches New Continuous Delivery Platform
- By Becky Nagel
- July 24, 2018
On Tuesday Google announced Cloud Build, a new continuous delivery platform for building, delivering and testing cloud-based applications.
According to Google, Cloud Build is designed to work within a variety of environments, including Kubernetes, Firebase, serverless and virtual machines. It has built-in integration for Kubernetes Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions and Firebase, plus the company recommends "Spinnaker with Cloud Build for creating and executing complex pipelines."
Google is pushing the ease of deployment with the new software, as well as the platform's flexibility ("builds in any language" and "complete control over the steps you want to perform as a part of build, test, and deploy"), the ability to build into containers or non-container artifacts, and the speed of those builds ("extremely fast").
Users can choose to build locally or in the cloud. And they receive 120 free "build-minutes" per day and 10 concurrent builds free with Cloud Build. More information on pricing can be found here.
A quick-start guide can be found here.
About the Author
Becky Nagel is the vice president of Web & Digital Strategy for 1105's Converge360 Group, where she oversees the front-end Web team and deals with all aspects of digital projects at the company, including launching and running the group's popular virtual summit and Coffee talk series . She an experienced tech journalist (20 years), and before her current position, was the editorial director of the group's sites. A few years ago she gave a talk at a leading technical publishers conference about how changes in Web browser technology would impact online advertising for publishers. Follow her on twitter @beckynagel.