Design and deploy applications in Google Cloud - Introducing Application Design Center

Key Takeaways

[Music] Hello and welcome. My name is Afrina and a product manager at Google Cloud. Today I am going to introduce you to application design center or ADC. ADC is Google Cloud's new service for designing and deploying application templates with built-in governance, security, and observability. It empowers platform engineers to create, share, and manage reusable application templates and app developers can deploy application instances directly from these designs. Crucially, it is AI powered by Gemini and deeply integrated with AppHub. Enabling ADC is straightforward. You can find detailed instructions in our official documentation. Simply navigate to the ADC section in the documentation and follow the steps. Before we jump into building an application, let's take a quick walk through of the application design center interface and its core concepts. First, we have spaces. Think of a space as a shared workspace where you and your teammates can see and use each other's design work. is where you and your team create application templates and deploy applications. Importantly, only an administrator can create a space and add members ensuring controlled access. Next, we work with app templates. These are the blueprints of your application made up of one or more components. You can create a template from scratch by clicking on create template or you can accelerate your development by copying and customizing Google provided templates or templates shared with your space found here in shared templates. You can also use Gemini chat to create a template from scratch which makes all of this very easy. Once you've selected or created a template, you will configure and deploy your applications. This involves setting up each component to meet your specific requirements and then deploying the application to your Google Cloud environment. If you have your own deployment tools and workflows, you can download the application design as Terraform files. Finally, we have catalogs. Cataloges allow administrators to share approved application templates within your space and with other spaces. This ensures consistency and promotes best practices across your organization. Let's build a three- tier e-commerce application. In this demo, I will create an application design using Google templates. Alternatively, you can create a design by chatting with Gemini Cloud Assist through the chat in the console. To learn more, watch our video ADC with Gemini Cloud Assist. You can find the link in the description below. Let's go ahead and click on create template. I'm going to fill out the template name. All the other fields are optional. Let's create the template. The template is now in the design canvas. Now I want to add two more cloudr run services, inventory and ordering service. There are a few ways to do this. Number one, I'm going to click on the plus button here. Scroll down and pick Cloud Run. Alternatively, you could also drag and drop it from here. Notice how it automatically made the connection as well. Number two, I will show you how to make design changes using chat. Let's type in add an ordering service to this design. Voila. Notice how Gemini picked up on the context and responded instantly. We did not start from scratch here. The green button shows the newly added service and the blue button shows a modified service. Now I'm going to rename my services. Let me add another database to store my inventory. I'm going to connect my search service to the cache. At this point, my design is complete. The application design center lets you review the Terraform code and export it out if needed. Although ADC can deploy your design, you might want to export it out if your organization already has a CI/CD pipeline or other deployment tools that you want to use for your deployment. Click on the code here and authorize cloud shell. Here you can see all the Terraform code that was created for this design. Now I am going to add this template to my catalog. You can now share this template to another space. This is useful for larger organizations who might want to share data pipeline templates with their data team, e-commerce templates with their e-commerce team and so forth. You can give your team permission to use ADC and access your space letting them collaborate in creating app templates. To grant them permissions, go to overview, scroll down, click on manage permissions. Understanding these roles is crucial for managing access and ensuring efficient collaboration. Next, we'll create an application instance from this template, specifying the necessary parameters for our environment. We can further configure individual components within the application instance such as setting instance sizes, database parameters, and network configurations. Now we'll deploy the application. ADC orchestrates the deployment ensuring all the components are provisioned and configured correctly. Select the service account and then preview the Terraform script. Okay. Then click deploy. Awesome. The application has been deployed. Here you can see the version of the app region and the template source. In this demo, we have built a three- tier e-commerce application using the Gemini design agent and the ADC canvas. We have customized each tier, created a template, and deployed the application. Want to give it a try yourself? Follow the link on the screen to get started with ADC today. Thank you. [Music]