Google Cloud Function Selenium Example

Extends gcloud-function-boilerplate with Selenium.

WARNING The maximum allowable memory for a gcloud function is 2GB. Deploying this example with only 1GB memory crashed. GCloud function also only allow a maximum of 9 minutes for your function to run. So be aware of these constraints before you build something on top of this!

Setup

Signup for Google Cloud
Create a new project project.
Install the gcloud cli tool.
```
 brew cask install google-cloud-sdk
```
Login
```
 gcloud auth login
```
Find the project id you just created and set it as the current project.
```
 gcloud projects list
 gcloud config set project selenium-258105
```

Development

(optional) If you want to use gcloud services, you'll need to create some credentials.
```
 gcloud iam service-accounts create chet-dev
```

Add an owner policy

 gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding selenium-258105 --member "serviceAccount:chet-dev@selenium-258105.iam.gserviceaccount.com" --role "roles/owner"

Create the credentials file.

 gcloud iam service-accounts keys create credentials.json --iam-account chet-dev@selenium-258105.iam.gserviceaccount.com

Start the development server (you may have to build the first bundle npm run build before you do this.)
```
 npm start
```
Test that its working
```
 curl http://localhost:8080/
```

Deploying

Read about it here
Build the TypeScript files:
```
 npm run build
```
Edit the package.json deploy script to reference the name of the function you want to deploy. Currently, it's called selenium.
Deploy
```
 npm run deploy
```
The deployment should log an endpoint url that you can test.
```
 curl https://us-central1-selenium-258105.cloudfunctions.net/selenium
```
NOTE you can modify the memory allocation and timeout of the function in the deploy script. Current defaults are maxed out at --memory=2048MB --timeout=540s.

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