This post aims to add some missing information to Google’s docs about setting up CI/CD for Cloud Functions with Cloud Build. Global vs Regional Cloud Build triggers are global by default. You can create a regional trigger in the Cloud Console by changing the location when editing or creating a trigger. NOTE: I can’t find […]
Google Cloud Build for Cloud Functions Read More »
Terraform provides a very simply way to use for_each to iterate over a list of resources. If you have a list of strings, use the toset() function to convert the list to a set of strings. Example: assign a unique role on each resource My use case is setting up a number of dev environments
Terraform: for_each on a list of resources Read More »
Learn how to create multiple Terraform resources, and multiple blocks within Terraform resources, from data.
Auto-Create Multiple Blocks in a Terraform Resource Read More »
Here’s an example of using Terraform to define resources to host static content in a Google Cloud Storage bucket, fronted by a Cloud Load Balancer with a custom URL and SSL certificate.
Define a Google Load Balancer and Cloud Storage bucket with Terraform Read More »
Google Cloud Operations, formerly known as Stackdriver Logging and Monitoring, can be very confusing to set up. It’s easy to monitor something simple, but more complex cases quickly get confusing. One of the more flexible but confusing types of alert policies in Stackdriver Monitoring is a Logs-Based Metrics policy, which gives you the ability to
Alert Policies for Log Metrics on Google Stackdriver Monitoring Read More »
This is a minimal PHP script that’s useful for verifying connectivity and permissions to read data from a Google Bigtable instance. Unlike some of the sparse examples in Google’s PHP SDK, this script will work for any table, and you don’t need to know anything about the structure of the table. This script tests the
Testing Access to Google Bigtable Read More »
Google Cloud SQL recently introduced the capability for an instance to have an IP address within the private address space of your VPC network. Previously, all Cloud SQL instances had IP addresses within the address space of the public Internet. Obviously, the public IP was a security and privacy concern, as well as a potential
Another Reason to Enable Private IP Addresses on Google Cloud SQL Read More »
I have a QNAP NAS at home which I use for file storage. It shares several folders with the family’s Mac, Linux, and Windows computers. Many of these files are are irreplaceable, especially our digital photos, so I back them up to the cloud. QNAP provides the Hybrid Backup and Sync application, which supports multiple
QNAP NAS: Backup & Sync to Google Cloud Storage Read More »
Creating Kubernetes secrets isn’t intuitive the first time you do it. A common reason to use a secret is to add a SSL/TLS certificate to a cluster. Kubernetes provides two ways to add a secret: directly on the command line, and from a YAML source file. First, let’s generate a test certificate to work with
Creating Kubernetes Secrets Using TLS/SSL as an Example Read More »
StackDriver Logging is a great feature of Google Compute Engine (GCE). You pretty much need a centralized logging solution if you are taking maximum advantage of the features offered by GCE. For example, most production applications will run on a cluster of web servers. If you set up the cluster as a managed instance group
Viewing logs for a cluster of instances on Google Stackdriver Logging Read More »