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Cloud Build

Serverless CI/CD pipelines.

Overview

Cloud Build executes containerized build steps triggered by source pushes, manual runs or Pub/Sub events.

When to use it

Build → test → deploy pipelines
Cross-repo orchestration
Triggering nightly QA jobs

Setup

Enable Cloud Build API and connect your repository (GitHub/Bitbucket/Cloud Source).
Add `cloudbuild.yaml` with build steps.
Create trigger: branch, tag or Pub/Sub.

How to use

Minimal cloudbuild.yaml

steps:
  - name: node:20
    entrypoint: bash
    args: [-c, 'npm ci && npm test']
  - name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
    args: ['build','-t','us-docker.pkg.dev/$PROJECT_ID/images/api:$SHORT_SHA','.']
images: ['us-docker.pkg.dev/$PROJECT_ID/images/api:$SHORT_SHA']

QA use cases

Run Playwright in a parallel step and upload report to GCS.
Gate deploy step on test result success.