How to Build Your Own Cloud Build
Replace Cloud Build with a custom build. Build, test, and deploy on our serverless CI/CD platform
Build Difficulty: 5/5
Build a working replacement in a weekend with AI tools
Estimated Timeline
Based on 39 features at Weekend Project difficulty, expect about One weekend with AI-assisted development.
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 39 features
Security(12 features)
Automatically perform package vulnerability scanning for Ubuntu, Debian, and Alpine
Built-in integration to verify attestations and deploy only signed images
Keep data at rest within a geographical region or specific location for compliance
Scan artifacts on-demand to shift security left in the development process
Identify package vulnerabilities for container images and language packages
+7 more in this category
Integration(9 features)
Push images directly to Google Cloud Artifact Registry
Support for Bitbucket repositories
Support for Google Cloud Source Repositories as trigger sources
Push images directly to Docker Hub repositories
Native support for GitHub Enterprise, GitLab Enterprise, and Bitbucket Data Center
+4 more in this category
Infrastructure(6 features)
Choose from 15 different machine configurations including standard, high-memory, and high-CPU options
Secure hosted environment with public internet access for builds
Private dedicated pools with greater control over build environment and access to private networks
Choose from regions across the world to meet regulatory obligations
Request additional SSD storage for VMs running builds, first 100GB free, up to 4000GB available
+1 more in this category
Development(3 features)
Native Docker support with ability to import existing Docker files
Build and debug locally before submitting to the cloud with open source local builder
Support for Java, Go, Node.js, and many other programming languages
Performance(3 features)
Cache source code, images, or other dependencies to increase build speed
Run hundreds of concurrent builds per pool to speed up testing and deployment
Access machines connected via Google's global network to reduce build time significantly
Deployment(2 features)
Create pipelines as part of build steps to automate deployments automatically
Deploy across VMs, serverless, Kubernetes, and Firebase
Monitoring(2 features)
Filter build results using tags or queries to identify slow performing builds
Get detailed insights into build results with errors and warnings for easy debugging
Automation(1 features)
Automatically build, test, or deploy source code when changes are pushed to repositories
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