Kotlin on Google Cloud

A community-supported project

Build rich backends in your favorite language

Create and deploy autoscaling Kotlin backends for your mobile apps
Write Kotlin using your favorite Java frameworks and libraries
Use fully-managed MySQL/PostgreSQL or Firebase for your application database
Run Kotlin in a containerized application at scale on Google Kubernetes Engine
Use IntelliJ with Cloud Code to add Google Cloud API libraries and deploy to Cloud Run.

Write Kotlin using your favorite Java and Kotlin frameworks

Learn how to build an application on Spring Boot, Spark, and Ktor. Integrate your applications with MySQL using Cloud SQL.

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Cloud Run

Develop and deploy highly scalable containerized applications on a fully managed serverless platform.

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Compute Engine

Use cloud-based virtual machines to build and deploy your application.

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Access all of Google Cloud with Kotlin

Build your applications in Kotlin using Google Cloud APIs and services.

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Storage API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Cloud Storage client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-storage', version: '1.36.0'

Write your code

// import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions
val storage = StorageOptions.getDefaultInstance().service
val bucket = storage.get(bucketName) ?: error("Bucket $bucketName does not exist.")

println("Listing all blobs in bucket $bucketName:")
bucket.list().iterateAll().forEach { blob ->
    println("${blob.name} (content-type: ${blob.contentType}, size: ${blob.size})")
}

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Natural Language API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Cloud Vision client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-vision', version: '1.35.0'

Write your code

// import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.ImageAnnotatorClient
// import java.io.File
val imgProto = ByteString.copyFrom(File(imageFileName).readBytes())
val vision = ImageAnnotatorClient.create()

// Set up the Cloud Vision API request.
val img = Image.newBuilder().setContent(imgProto).build()
val feat = Feature.newBuilder().setType(Type.LABEL_DETECTION).build()
val request = AnnotateImageRequest.newBuilder()
    .addFeatures(feat)
    .setImage(img)
    .build()

// Call the Cloud Vision API and perform label detection on the image.
val result = vision.batchAnnotateImages(arrayListOf(request))

// Print the label annotations for the first response.
result.responsesList[0].labelAnnotationsList.forEach { label ->
    println("${label.description} (${(label.score * 100).toInt()}%)")
}

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Storage API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Firestore client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-firestore', version: '0.58.0-beta'

Write your code

// Create the client.
val db = FirestoreOptions.newBuilder()
    .build()
    .service

// Fetch the document reference and data object.
val docRef = db.collection(collectionName).document(documentName)
val data = docRef
    .get() // future
    .get() // snapshot
    .data ?: error("Document $collectionName:$documentName not found") // MutableMap

// Print the retrieved data.
data.forEach { (key, value) -> println("$key: $value") }

Upload files to Cloud Storage

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Google Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Storage API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Cloud Storage client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-storage', version: '1.36.0'

Write your code

// import com.google.cloud.storage.StorageOptions
val storage = StorageOptions.getDefaultInstance().service
val bucket = storage.get(bucketName) ?: error("Bucket $bucketName does not exist.")

println("Listing all blobs in bucket $bucketName:")
bucket.list().iterateAll().forEach { blob ->
    println("${blob.name} (content-type: ${blob.contentType}, size: ${blob.size})")
}

Analyze images with the Cloud Vision API

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Natural Language API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Cloud Vision client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-vision', version: '1.35.0'

Write your code

// import com.google.cloud.vision.v1.ImageAnnotatorClient
// import java.io.File
val imgProto = ByteString.copyFrom(File(imageFileName).readBytes())
val vision = ImageAnnotatorClient.create()

// Set up the Cloud Vision API request.
val img = Image.newBuilder().setContent(imgProto).build()
val feat = Feature.newBuilder().setType(Type.LABEL_DETECTION).build()
val request = AnnotateImageRequest.newBuilder()
    .addFeatures(feat)
    .setImage(img)
    .build()

// Call the Cloud Vision API and perform label detection on the image.
val result = vision.batchAnnotateImages(arrayListOf(request))

// Print the label annotations for the first response.
result.responsesList[0].labelAnnotationsList.forEach { label ->
    println("${label.description} (${(label.score * 100).toInt()}%)")
}

Call Firestore from a Kotlin Backend

Set up a Google Cloud project

In the Cloud console, go to the Manage resources page and select or create a new project.

Go to the manage resources page

Enable billing for your project.

Enable billing

Enable the Cloud Storage API.

Enable the API

Add dependencies to your project

Add the Firestore client library to your gradle.build under dependencies:


compile group: 'com.google.cloud', name: 'google-cloud-firestore', version: '0.58.0-beta'

Write your code

// Create the client.
val db = FirestoreOptions.newBuilder()
    .build()
    .service

// Fetch the document reference and data object.
val docRef = db.collection(collectionName).document(documentName)
val data = docRef
    .get() // future
    .get() // snapshot
    .data ?: error("Document $collectionName:$documentName not found") // MutableMap

// Print the retrieved data.
data.forEach { (key, value) -> println("$key: $value") }

Quickly find and debug issues

Google Cloud Observability provides powerful monitoring, logging, and diagnostics. It equips you with insight into the health, performance, and availability of cloud-powered applications, enabling you to find and fix issues faster.

Google Cloud Observability

Unified monitoring, logging, and diagnostics for applications on Google Cloud and AWS.

Error Reporting

A walk through of getting an error alert and investigating the error in the Cloud console.

Monitor, diagnose, and fix

In this video, Aja Hammerly uses Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Logging, Error Reporting, and Cloud Trace to find and fix some subtle errors in an example app.

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