Kubernetes
Kubernetes secret values as shell environment variables
Getting a bunch of secret values out of kubernetes into your local shell […]
Kubernetes
BigQuery
Workload identity with Kubernetes cronjobs to synch Mongo to Bigquery
An example use case for Kubernetes workload identity federation – transferring collections from mongodb to bigquery with a Kubernetes cron job […]
APIS and techniques
Sharing secrets between Doppler, GCP and Kubernetes
3 secret managers working together. How to use GCP Secret Manager, Kubernetes secrets and Doppler together. […]
APIS and techniques
Queuing asynchronous tasks to defeat rate limits
The problem with rate limits You’ve most likely hit the problem of rate-limited APIS at some point. You make a request and it gets refused because you’ve done too many requests in some time period. […]
Google Cloud Platform
FTP server on Kubernetes with cloud storage and pubsub
Getting an FTP server running on Kubernetes is a little tricky. The FTP service uses multiple ports in its negotiation and you need to make sure that the conversation always connects to the same Kubernetes […]
Google Cloud Platform
Using mcrouter with memcached on Kubernetes
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances on your cluster and Exposing […]
Google Cloud Platform
Getting a simple app running on Kubernetes
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances on your cluster and Exposing […]
Google Cloud Platform
Creating a test app for memcache on Kubernetes
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances […]
Google Cloud Platform
Exposing a memcache loadbalancer
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster and Installing memcache with Kubernetes which installed some memcache instances on your cluster. I recommend […]
Google Cloud Platform
Installing memcache with Kubernetes
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes which explained how to create your first cluster. I recommend that you save your commands in various scripts so you can […]
Google Cloud Platform
Getting memcache up and running on Kubernetes
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes. For this to make sense you could have worked through a few of the earlier examples, but if you […]
Google Cloud Platform
Kubernetes ingress with cert-manager
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes. For this to make sense you should have worked through a few of the earlier examples. This is an […]
Google Cloud Platform
Managing ssl for ingress certificates with cert-manager
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes. For this to make sense you should have worked through a few of the earlier examples Already have a […]
Google Cloud Platform
HTTPS ingress for Kubernetes service
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes. For this to make sense you should have worked through a few of the earlier examples Already have a […]
Google Cloud Platform
Getting an ssl certificate for Kubernetes ingress
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes. For this to make sense you should have worked through a few of the earlier examples. This uses kube-leo […]
Google Cloud Platform
Bringing up an ingress controller
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes, and you should first have created an app to be deployed as described in Building your App ready for […]
Google Cloud Platform
Digging around on the Kubernetes cluster
This is a part of the series of posts on Getting an API running in Kubernetes, and you should first have created an app to be deployed as described in Building your App ready for […]
Google Cloud Platform
Creating a microservice on Kubernetes
This is a step in Getting an API running in Kubernetes, and you should first have created an app to be deployed as described in Building your App ready for Kubernetes deployment, deployed it as […]
Google Cloud Platform
Creating a Kubernetes deployment
This is a step in Getting an API running in Kubernetes, and you should first have created an app to be deployed as described in Building your App ready for Kubernetes deployment, you have a […]
Google Cloud Platform
Building your App ready for Kubernetes deployment
This is a step in Getting an API running in Kubernetes Building your demo app Before getting into the Kubernetes configuration, the first step is to create a demo App, which will run on Node/Express. […]
Google API
Getting an API running in Kubernetes
In Getting cockroachDB running with Kubernetes I covered how to get your cockroach database orchestrated by Kubernetes. Next you’ll want to get your API running, and expose it over SSL. Normally I’d put these kind […]
CockroachDB
Secure CockroachDB and Kubernetes
In Getting cockroachDB running with Kubernetes I covered how to get cockroachdb going on Kubernetes, but that was in insecure mode, which is fine for playing around inside the Kubernetes cluster, but not good enough […]
CockroachDB
CockroachDB
Getting cockroachdb running on google cloud platform
Cockroachdb is a PostgreSQL compatible SQL database. It’s architecture is somewhat like Google Spanner, but you need to install it on your own infrastructure. This article will give a brief overview of how this stuff is […]
APIS and techniques
Making sense of OCR – Google Vision
In the project I’m using for illustrating some of the capabilities of GCP, I need to make sense of a variety of documents, some very complex and some less so. The basic problem though is that there […]
APIS and techniques
Google Video Intelligence API film labelling
The Video Intelligence API allows you to analyze the content of videos. For my use case this is super useful, because now I can Label videos with their content, and use those labels to navigate to the […]
Databases
Firebase auth for graphql clients
This’ll be quite a long post, or maybe a series of them, as auth is always complicated. Lets first of all set the scene. This is a VueJs client that needs access, both authenticated and […]
Cloud Functions
Google Cloud Run on Kubernetes
I had originally planned just to use cloud functions for some of the work referred to in Google cloud platform, but since I’m running a Kubernetes cluster anyway, making that cluster scalable to deal with cloud […]
APIS and techniques
Stream content to Google Cloud Storage
This article looks at the Node implementation to stream content directly to google cloud storage, and we’ll look at how to convert that to a Cloud run function in a later one. Note that although […]
APIS and techniques
Vuejs, firebase, kubernetes, cockroachDB, google cloud platform and apollo graphQL
This is a new section to collate various snippets related to GraphQL both from and back ends. For the purposes of these articles, I’ll be concentrating on the integration of this collection of platforms with […]