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GCP Cloud Build
Serverless CI/CD that executes your builds on Google Cloud infrastructure.
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CI/CD Cloud Platform
Overview
GCP Cloud Build is a service that executes your builds on Google Cloud infrastructure.
Key Features
- Serverless build execution — no build servers to manage
- Pre-packaged community builders for Docker, Maven, Gradle, npm, and more
- Trigger builds from GitHub, GitLab, Cloud Source Repositories, or manual
- Build caching for faster incremental builds
- Seamless integration with Artifact Registry and Google Cloud Deploy
- Private pools for builds requiring access to on-premises resources
Real-World Workflows
Containerised application CI/CD on GCP
- 1Define a cloudbuild.yaml with steps: test, build Docker image, push to Artifact Registry
- 2Connect the repository trigger to fire on every push to main
- 3Cloud Build executes the steps in the GCP-managed build environment
- 4Signed image is pushed to Artifact Registry
- 5Google Cloud Deploy creates a release and deploys to the GKE target cluster
Getting Started
# cloudbuild.yaml:
steps:
- name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
args: ['build', '-t', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$SHORT_SHA', '.']
- name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
args: ['push', 'gcr.io/$PROJECT_ID/myapp:$SHORT_SHA']Compare Alternatives
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