Cloud Run allows you to run stateless containers in a fully managed environment. It is built from open-source Knative, letting you choose to run your containers either fully managed with Cloud Run, or in your Google Kubernetes Engine cluster with Cloud Run for Anthos.
Eventarc makes it easy to connect Cloud Run services with events from a variety of sources. It allows you to build event-driven architectures in which microservices are loosely coupled and distributed. It also takes care of event ingestion, delivery, security, authorization, and error-handling for you which improves developer agility and application resilience.
In this codelab, you will learn about Eventarc. More specifically, you will listen to events from Cloud Pub/Sub and Cloud Audit Logs with Eventarc and pass them to Cloud Run.
What you'll learn
- Long term vision of Eventarc
- Current state of Eventarc
- Create a Cloud Run sink
- Create an Event trigger for Cloud Pub/Sub
- Create an Event trigger for Cloud Audit Logs
Long-term Vision is to be able to deliver events from various sources to Google Cloud sinks and Custom sinks.
Google Cloud sources | Event sources that are Google Cloud owned products |
Google sources | Event sources that are Google-owned products such as Gmail, Hangouts, Android Management and more |
Custom sources | Event sources that are not Google-owned products and are created by end-users themselves |
3rd party sources | Event sources that are neither Google-owned nor customer-produced. This includes popular event sources such as Github, SAP, Datadog, Pagerduty, etc that are owned and maintained by 3rd party providers, partners, or OSS communities. |
Events are normalized to CloudEvents v1.0 format for cross-service interoperability. CloudEvents is a vendor-neutral open spec describing event data in common formats, enabling interoperability across services, platforms and systems.
This is the current version which delivers an initial set of the long-term functionality.
You can draw events from Google Cloud sources and Custom applications publishing to Cloud Pub/Sub and deliver them to Google Cloud Run sinks.
Events from a breadth of Google Cloud sources are delivered by way of Cloud Audit Logs. The latency and availability of event delivery from these sources are tied to those of Cloud Audit Logs. Whenever an event from a Google Cloud source is fired, a corresponding Cloud Audit Log entry is created.
Custom applications publishing to Cloud Pub/Sub can publish messages to a Pub/Sub topic they specify in any format.
The underlying delivery mechanism in Eventarc is Cloud Pub/Sub and topics and subscriptions created to facilitate event delivery are visible in customers' Pub/Sub instance for their project.
Event triggers are the filtering mechanism to specify which events to deliver to which sink.
All events are delivered in the CloudEvents v1.0 format for cross service interoperability.
Self-paced environment setup
- Sign in to Cloud Console and create a new project or reuse an existing one. (If you don't already have a Gmail or Google Workspace account, you must create one.)
Remember the project ID, a unique name across all Google Cloud projects (the name above has already been taken and will not work for you, sorry!). It will be referred to later in this codelab as PROJECT_ID.
- Next, you'll need to enable billing in Cloud Console in order to use Google Cloud resources.
Running through this codelab shouldn't cost much, if anything at all. Be sure to to follow any instructions in the "Cleaning up" section which advises you how to shut down resources so you don't incur billing beyond this tutorial. New users of Google Cloud are eligible for the $300 USD Free Trial program.
Start Cloud Shell
While Google Cloud can be operated remotely from your laptop, in this codelab you will be using Google Cloud Shell, a command line environment running in the Cloud.
From the GCP Console click the Cloud Shell icon on the top right toolbar:
It should only take a few moments to provision and connect to the environment. When it is finished, you should see something like this:
This virtual machine is loaded with all the development tools you'll need. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory, and runs on Google Cloud, greatly enhancing network performance and authentication. All of your work in this lab can be done with simply a browser.
Enable APIs
Inside Cloud Shell, make sure that you project id is setup:
gcloud config set project [YOUR-PROJECT-ID]
Enable all necessary services:
gcloud services enable run.googleapis.com gcloud services enable eventarc.googleapis.com gcloud services enable logging.googleapis.com gcloud services enable cloudbuild.googleapis.com
You also need to enable Data Access Audit Logs (Admin read, Data read, Data write) for all Google Cloud services from which you intend to receive events. In a later step, we will show you how to enable audit logs for Google Cloud Storage.
Set region and platform
Eventarc is available in the multiple Google Cloud regions and globally. You can see the list of regions with this command:
gcloud eventarc locations list
In Cloud Shell, set the Cloud Run region to one of the supported regions, platform to managed and the location of Eventarc trigger:
export REGION=europe-west1
gcloud config set run/region ${REGION}
gcloud config set run/platform managed
gcloud config set eventarc/location ${REGION}
You can check that the configuration is set:
gcloud config list ... [eventarc] location = europe-west1 ... [run] platform = managed region = europe-west1
Configure service account
Grant the eventarc.eventReceiver role to the default Compute Engine service account:
export PROJECT_NUMBER="$(gcloud projects describe $(gcloud config get-value project) --format='value(projectNumber)')"
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $(gcloud config get-value project) \
--member=serviceAccount:${PROJECT_NUMBER}-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com \
--role='roles/eventarc.eventReceiver'
You will use this service account in Audit Log trigger later.
You can discover what the registered sources are, the types of events they can emit, and how to configure triggers in order to consume them.
To see the list of different types of events:
gcloud beta eventarc attributes types list NAME DESCRIPTION google.cloud.audit.log.v1.written Cloud Audit Log written google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished Cloud Pub/Sub message published
To get more information about each event type:
gcloud beta eventarc attributes types describe google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished attributes: type description: Cloud Pub/Sub message published name: google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished
As an event sink, you can deploy Cloud Run's Hello container that already logs the contents of CloudEvents.
Deploy to Cloud Run
Deploy your containerized application to Cloud Run:
export SERVICE_NAME=event-display
gcloud run deploy ${SERVICE_NAME} \
--image gcr.io/cloudrun/hello
--allow-unauthenticated
On success, the command line displays the service URL. You can now visit your deployed container by opening the service URL in any browser window.
One way of receiving events is through Cloud Pub/Sub. Custom applications can publish messages to Cloud Pub/Sub and these messages can be delivered to Google Cloud Run sinks via Eventarc.
Create a trigger
Before creating the trigger, get more details on the parameters you'll need to construct a trigger for events from Cloud Pub/Sub:
gcloud beta eventarc attributes types describe google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished
Create a trigger to filter events published to the Cloud Pub/Sub topic to our deployed Cloud Run service:
gcloud eventarc triggers create trigger-pubsub \
--destination-run-service=${SERVICE_NAME} \
--destination-run-region=${REGION} \
--event-filters="type=google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished"
Find the topic
Pub/Sub trigger creates a Pub/Sub topic under the covers. Let's find it out and assign to a variable:
export TOPIC_ID=$(gcloud eventarc triggers describe trigger-pubsub --format='value(transport.pubsub.topic)')
Test the trigger
You can check that the trigger is created by listing all triggers:
gcloud eventarc triggers list
You might need to wait for up to 10 minutes for the trigger creation to be propagated and for it to begin filtering events.
In order to simulate a custom application sending message, you can use gcloud to to fire an event:
gcloud pubsub topics publish ${TOPIC_ID} --message="Hello there"
The Cloud Run sink we created logs the body of the incoming message. You can view this in the Logs section of your Cloud Run instance:
Delete the trigger
Optionally, you can delete the trigger once done testing.
gcloud eventarc triggers delete trigger-pubsub
Bring your own Pub/Sub topic
By default, when you create a Pub/Sub trigger, Eventarc creates a Pub/Sub topic under the covers for you to use as transport topic between your application and a Cloud Run service. This is useful to easily and quickly create a Pub/Sub backed trigger but it is also limiting. For example, you cannot set up a fanout from a single Pub/Sub topic to multiple Cloud Run services.
There is a way to create triggers from an existing Pub/Sub topic. Eventarc allows you to specify an existing Pub/Sub topic in the same project with --transport-topic gcloud flag.
To see how this works, create a Pub/Sub topic to use as transport topic:
export TOPIC_ID=my-topic
gcloud pubsub topics create ${TOPIC_ID}
Create a trigger:
gcloud eventarc triggers create trigger-pubsub-existing \
--destination-run-service=${SERVICE_NAME} \
--destination-run-region=${REGION} \
--event-filters="type=google.cloud.pubsub.topic.v1.messagePublished" \
--transport-topic=projects/$(gcloud config get-value project)/topics/${TOPIC_ID}
You can test the trigger but sending a message to the topic:
gcloud pubsub topics publish ${TOPIC_ID} --message="Hello again"
You will set up a trigger to listen for events from Cloud Audit Logs. More specifically, you will look for Cloud Storage events in Cloud Audit Logs.
Create a bucket
First, create a Cloud Storage bucket in the same region as the deployed Cloud Run service. You can replace BUCKET_NAME with a unique name you prefer:
export BUCKET_NAME=cr-bucket-$(gcloud config get-value project)
gsutil mb -p $(gcloud config get-value project) \
-l $(gcloud config get-value run/region) \
gs://${BUCKET_NAME}/
Enable Cloud Audit Logs
In order to receive events from a service, you need to enable Cloud Audit Logs. From the Cloud Console, select IAM & Admin and Audit Logs from the upper left-hand menu. In the list of services, check Google Cloud Storage:
On the right hand side, make sure Admin, Read and Write are selected. Click save:
Test Cloud Audit Logs
To learn how to identify the parameters you'll need to set up an actual trigger, perform an actual operation.
For example, create a random text file and upload it to the bucket:
echo "Hello World" > random.txt
gsutil cp random.txt gs://${BUCKET_NAME}/random.txt
Now, let's see what kind of audit log this update generated. From the Cloud Console, select Logging and Logs Viewer from the upper left-hand menu.
Under Query Builder, choose GCS Bucket and choose your bucket and its location. Click Add.
Once you run the query, you'll see logs for the storage bucket and one of those should be storage.objects.create:
Note the serviceName, methodName and resourceName. We'll use these in creating the trigger.
Create a trigger
You are now ready to create an event trigger for Cloud Audit Logs.
You can get more details on the parameters you'll need to construct the trigger:
gcloud beta eventarc attributes types describe google.cloud.audit.log.v1.written
Create the trigger with the right filters and the service account:
gcloud eventarc triggers create trigger-auditlog \
--destination-run-service=${SERVICE_NAME} \
--destination-run-region=${REGION} \
--event-filters="type=google.cloud.audit.log.v1.written" \
--event-filters="serviceName=storage.googleapis.com" \
--event-filters="methodName=storage.objects.create" \
--service-account=${PROJECT_NUMBER}-compute@developer.gserviceaccount.com
Test the trigger
List all triggers to confirm that trigger was successfully created:
gcloud eventarc triggers list
Wait for up to 10 minutes for the trigger creation to be propagated and for it to begin filtering events. Once ready, it will filter create events and send them to the service.
You're now ready to fire an event.
Upload the same file to the Cloud Storage bucket as you did earlier:
gsutil cp random.txt gs://${BUCKET_NAME}/random.txt
If you check the logs of the Cloud Run service in Cloud Console, you should see the received event:
Delete the trigger
Optionally, you can delete the trigger once done testing:
gcloud eventarc triggers delete trigger-auditlog
Congratulations for completing the codelab.
What we've covered
- Long term vision of Eventarc
- Current state of Eventarc
- Create a Cloud Run sink
- Create an Event trigger for Cloud Pub/Sub
- Create an Event trigger for Cloud Audit Logs