- Echo Service

Let’s construct a basic echo application using google cloud platform's cloud function.

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GCP provides a web interface for authoring Cloud Functions. This UI provides options for setting up the triggers for a function, specifying the requirements file for a Python function, and authoring the implementation of the Flask function that serves the request.

Getting started

To start, we’ll set up a simple echo service that reads in a parameter from an HTTP request and returns the passed-in parameter as the result.

In GCP, you can directly set up a Cloud Function as an HTTP endpoint without needing to configure additional triggers. To get started with setting up an echo service, perform the following actions in the GCP console:

  1. Search for “Cloud Function.”
  2. Click on “Create Function.”
  3. Select “HTTP” as the trigger.
  4. Select “Allow
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