Google Cloud Functions#

Lithops with GCP Functions as serverless compute backend.

Installation#

  1. Install Google Cloud Platform backend dependencies:

python3 -m pip install lithops[gcp]
  1. Login to Google Cloud Console (or sign up if you don’t have an account).

  2. Create a new project. Name it lithops or similar.

  3. Navigate to IAM & Admin > Service Accounts.

  4. Click on Create Service Account. Name the service account lithops-executor or similar. Then click on Create.

  5. Add the following roles to the service account:

  • Service Accounts –> Service Account User

  • Cloud Functions –> Cloud Functions Admin

  • Pub/Sub –> Pub/Sub Admin

  • Cloud Storage –> Storage Admin

  1. Click on Continue and Done. Next, access the newly created service account, and click on the keys tab. Click on Add key. Select JSON and then Create. Download the JSON file to a secure location in you computer.

  2. Enable the Cloud Build API : Navigate to APIs & services tab on the menu. Click ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES. Look for “Cloud Build API” at the search bar. Click Enable.

  3. Enable the Cloud Functions API : Navigate to APIs & services tab on the menu. Click ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES. Look for “Cloud Functions API” at the search bar. Click Enable.

  4. Enable the Artifact Registry API: Navigate to APIs & services tab on the menu. Click ENABLE APIS AND SERVICES. Look for “Artifact Registry API” at the search bar. Click Enable.

Configuration#

  1. Edit your lithops config and add the following keys:

    lithops:
        backend: gcp_functions

    gcp:
        region : <REGION_NAME>
        credentials_path : <FULL_PATH_TO_CREDENTIALS_JSON>

Summary of configuration keys for Google:#

Google Cloud Platform:#

Group

Key

Default

Mandatory

Additional info

gcp

region

yes

Region name of the GCP services (e.g. us-east1)

gcp

credentials_path

yes

Absolute path of your JSON key file downloaded in step 7 (e.g. /home/myuser/lithops-invoker1234567890.json). Alternatively you can set GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable. If not provided it will try to load the default credentials from the environment

Google Cloud Functions#

Group

Key

Default

Mandatory

Additional info

gcp_functions

region

no

Region name (e.g. us-east1). Functions and pub/sub queues will be created in the same region. Lithops will use the region set under the gcp section if it is not set here

gcp_functions

max_workers

1000

no

Max number of workers per FunctionExecutor()

gcp_functions

worker_processes

1

no

Number of Lithops processes within a given worker. This can be used to parallelize function activations within a worker

gcp_functions

runtime

no

Runtime name already deployed in the service

gcp_functions

runtime_memory

256

no

Memory limit in MB. Default 256MB

gcp_functions

runtime_timeout

300

no

Runtime timeout in seconds. Default 5 minutes

gcp_functions

trigger

pub/sub

no

One of ‘https’ or ‘pub/sub’

gcp_functions

invoke_pool_threads

1000

no

Number of concurrent threads used for invocation

Test Lithops#

Once you have your compute and storage backends configured, you can run a hello world function with:

lithops hello -b gcp_functions -s gcp_storage

Viewing the execution logs#

You can view the function executions logs in your local machine using the lithops client:

lithops logs poll