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Cloud Functions: Qwik Start - Command Line
LAB 4
Cloud Functions is a serverless execution environment for building and connecting cloud services. With Cloud Functions you write simple, single-purpose functions that are attached to events emitted from your cloud infrastructure and services. Your Cloud Function is triggered when an event being watched is fired. Your code executes in a fully managed environment. There is no need to provision any infrastructure or worry about managing any servers.
create a simple function named helloWorld which writes a message to the Cloud Functions logs. It is triggered by cloud function events and accepts a callback function used to signal completion of the function.
For this lab the cloud function event is a cloud pub/sub topic event. A pub/sub is a messaging service where the senders of messages are decoupled from the receivers of messages. When a message is sent or posted, a subscription is required for a receiver to be alerted and receive the message. For more information about pub/subs, see Google Cloud Pub/Sub: A Google-Scale Messaging Service.
First create a directory, move into it and create an
index.js file.mkdir gcf_hello_world
cd gcf_hello_world
touch index.js
Then, enter the following into the file.
/**
* Background Cloud Function to be triggered by Pub/Sub.
* This function is exported by index.js, and executed when
* the trigger topic receives a message.
*
* @param {object} data The event payload.
* @param {object} context The event metadata.
*/
exports.helloWorld = (data, context) => {
const pubSubMessage = data;
const name = pubSubMessage.data
? Buffer.from(pubSubMessage.data, 'base64').toString() : "Hello World";
console.log(`My Cloud Function: ${name}`);
};
The following command creates a new bucket.
gsutil mb -p [PROJECT_ID] gs://[BUCKET_NAME]
gsutil mb -p qwiklabs-gcp-00-5cd73182d144 gs://neewashere
When deploying a new function, you must specify
--trigger-topic, --trigger-bucket, or --trigger-http. gcloud functions deploy helloWorld \
--stage-bucket [BUCKET_NAME] \
--trigger-topic hello_world \
--runtime nodejs8
gcloud functions deploy helloWorld \
--stage-bucket neewashere \
--trigger-topic hello_world \
--runtime nodejs8
Verify the status of the function:
gcloud functions describe helloWorld
Enter the following command to create a message test of the function
DATA=$(printf 'Hello World! Neewashere'|base64) && gcloud functions call helloWorld --data '{"data":"'$DATA'"}'
Check the logs to see your messages in the log history with the following command
gcloud functions logs read helloWorld
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