Cloud Computing Project

Mini-project 1: First Cloud Function

Part 1: Create a Cloud Function

Description: Post a cloud function that takes in a string of numbers and returns and returns a json file that contains the sum of all of the single digit numbers.

Example:

• Input: 12345
• Output: {"answer": 15}

Part 2: Query your Cloud Function

Do a GET request to your cloud function with a input 012937, 2 and 9999999999999.

Part 3: Adding a collaborator to your Cloud function

Add your professor as a collaborator to your cloud function via the IAM page.

How to test?

Create new conda environment.

conda create --my-first-gcf --clone base

Then, activate the new environment:

conda activate my-first-gcf

Now, install the required packages:

pip install functions-framework flask

Move to this folder and run:

functions-framework --target first_cloud_function --debug

Then run the testing script in ./test/first_function.py

python ./test/first_function.py