Use custom domain for Google Cloud Function - google-cloud-platform

Question

I can't see any option anywhere to set up a custom domain for my Google Cloud Function when using HTTP Triggers. Seems like a fairly major omission. Is there any way to use a custom domain instead of their location-project.cloudfunctions.net domain or some workaround to the same effect?
I read an article suggesting using a CDN in front of the function with the function URL specified as the pull zone. This would work, but would introduce unnecessary cost - and in my scenario none of the content is able to be cached so using a CDN is far from ideal.

Answer 1

If you connect your Cloud project with Firebase, you can connect your HTTP-triggered Cloud Functions to Firebase Hosting to get vanity URLs.

Answer 2

Using Cloudflare Workers (CDN, reverse proxy)
Why? Because it not only allows you to set up a reverse proxy over your Cloud Function but also allows you to configure things like - server-side rendering (SSR) at CDN edge locations, hydrating API response for the initial (SPA) webpage load, CSRF protection, DDoS protection, advanced caching strategies, etc.
Add your domain to Cloudflare; then go to DNS settings, add a A record pointing to 192.0.2.1 with Cloudflare proxy enabled for that record (orange icon). For example:
Create a Cloudflare Worker script similar to this:
function handleRequest(request) {
const url = new URL(request.url);
url.protocol = "https:";
url.hostname = "us-central1-example.cloudfunctions.net";
url.pathname = `/app${url.pathname}`;
return fetch(new Request(url.toString(), request));
}
addEventListener("fetch", (event) => {
event.respondWith(handleRequest(event.request));
});
Finally, open Workers tab in the Cloudflare Dashboard, and add a new route mapping your domain URL (pattern) to this worker script, e.g. example.com/* => proxy (script)
For a complete example, refer to GraphQL API and Relay Starter Kit (see web/workers).
Also, vote for Allow me to put a Custom Domain on my Cloud Function
in the GCF issue tracker.

Answer 3

Another way to do it while avoiding Firebase is to put a load balancer in front of the Cloud Function or Cloud Run and use a "Serverless network endpoint group" as the backend for the load balancer.
Once you have the load balancer set up just modify the DNS record of your domain to point to the load balancer and you are good to go.
https://cloud.google.com/load-balancing/docs/https/setting-up-https-serverless

Answer 4

Been a while for this answer.
Yes, now you can use a custom domain for your Google Cloud functions.
Go over to firebase and associate your project with firebase. What we are interested in here is the hosting. Install the Firebase CLI as per the firebase documentation - (very good and sweet docs here)
Now create your project and as you may have noticed on the docs, to add firebase to your project you type firebase init. Select hosting and that's it.
Once you are done, look for the firebase.json file. Then customize it like this
{
"hosting": {
"public": "public",
"ignore": [
"firebase.json",
"**/.*",
"**/node_modules/**"
],
"rewrites": [
{
"source": "myfunction/custom",
"function": "myfunction"
},
]
}
}
By default, you get a domain like https://project-name.web.app but you can add your own domain on the console.
Now deploy your site. Since you are not interested in web hosting probably you can leave as is. Now your function will execute like this
Function to execute > myfunction
Custom url > https://example.com/myfunction/custom

Answer 5

If you don't mind the final appearance of the url you could also setup a CNAME dns record.
function.yourdomain.com -> us-central1******.cloudfunctions.net
then you could call it like
function.yourdomain.com/function-1/?message=Hello+World