Deploy Your Google Cloud Functions The Right Way (Step-by-Step Guide)
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Three years ago (at the time of publication), I deployed my first cloud function two hours before the end of a Friday work day. As if that wasn’t cutting it close enough, it was also the weekend before my wedding. The function was simple enough; it made two requests and loaded two reports into our data warehouse in BigQuery. The trickiest part is that it required a nested schema. Also, I had never followed all of these deployment steps before, only having experience developing and running code locally.
Since then, I’ve developed, maintained and deployed nearly 200 cloud functions in 3 years. And, over that time frame, I’ve developed something of a process I intend to share.
Previously, I’ve explained the “big picture” of deployment.
As well as the importance of testing and ongoing challenges of package compatibility going from staging to…
