Backend API CI/CD

Currently, Ask Astro uses Google cloud run to run the API server, and deploys the backend API with cloud build. You can find the cloud build configuration in /api/cloudbuild.yaml.

Create cloud run service

These steps create a cloud service and template for your cloud build on the Google Cloud Platform.

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/, and search for the Cloud Run service.

2. On the Cloud Run page, click on CREATE SERVICE.

3. Select Continuously deploy new revision from source repository and Set up with cloud build

4. Select Repository provider as GitHub and click Next.

5. Set up the build configuration:

   • Branch name: main

   • Build type: Python via buildpacks

   • Build context directory: /api

6. Add Service name, Region, CPU allocation and pricing, Autoscaling, and Ingress.

7. Allow Unauthenticated invocation and click on Create.

8. Add the required Environment variables to run the backend API.

   1. After you create the service, visit the Created service page

   2. Click on EDIT AND DEPLOY NEW REVISION

   3. Add you Environment variable and click Deploy

Update cloud build configuration

1. Go to https://console.cloud.google.com/ and search for the cloud build service.

2. Click on Triggers. When you created a Cloud Run Service, it also made a Cloud Trigger Template that you can edit.

3. Click on the cloud build trigger template and update the following information:

   1. Name, Description, Tag, and Event

   2. Select your Source and Branch.

   3. In Configuration, select Cloud Build configuration file and define the Cloud Build configuration file location as api/cloudbuild.yaml.

   4. Don’t make any changes to the advance settings and click Save.

4. In settings, enable Cloud build and Cloud run.