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 …
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 …
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.
According to its official description, “Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.” Sequelize is widely used in Node.js web applications to abstract the database layer. I recently found a “corner case” for Sequelize which is possible to accomplish, but is not well documented anywhere on the web. …
Node.js: Connecting to MySQL on a socket with Sequelize 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 »
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 …
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Setting up disk space utilization alerts in Google Stackdriver is almost unbelievably tricky. It’s easy to think that you can just choose the metric “Disk Utilization” and add a condition to alert when disk utilization crosses some threshold for some length of time (such as over 55% for 1 hour). File System Type Filter Your …
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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 …
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