Cloud Understanding GCP Load Balancers In this post, we will try to give you the big picture about GCP Load Balancing and answer the following questions: how Load Balancing works in GCP, what are the types of GCP Load Balancers and their purposes, which components make a GCP Load Balancer... with examples and links to go deeper.
Cloud Get started with Google Cloud Platform #2 In this second part, we will familiarize with Google Cloud command line utility (gcloud) and see how we can manage a bunch of GCP resources through that CLI.
Cloud Get started with Google Cloud Platform #1 In this first part, we introduce Google Cloud Platform through a simple overview providing essential info for starting our GCP journey with ease.
Containers Exposing Kubernetes apps with Gateway API in GKE How to make applications running in GKE publicly available through the Gateway API, with managed wildcard TLS certificates and Cloud Armor WAF protection.
Containers Autoscaling pods using custom metrics in GKE Learn how to make custom metrics available inside the Google Cloud Monitoring service and make the GKE Horizontal Pod Autoscaler use those metrics for scaling pods.
Cloud Connecting GKE worloads to Cloud SQL databases How to easily and securely connect pods running in Google Kubernetes Engine to a managed Google SQL database instance in GCP. We will use cloud-sql-proxy and workload identity to do it the best way.
Cloud Exposing Kubernetes apps with ingress-gce in GKE How to make apps running in Google Kubernetes Engine accessible publicly through the default ingress controller, HTTPS activated with managed TLS certificates. Use frontendconfig and backendconfig objects to add useful features to the ingress controller.
Cloud Bootstrap Terraform projects for GCP and Azure Essentials steps and best practices to set up when using Terraform to create infrastructure in Microsoft or Google cloud platforms (Azure and GCP).
