Configuring Internal Load Balancer with Deployment Manager
It’s interesting how some tools that try to look simpler and be more user friendly, actually make the things way more complex. Back in a day it was …
Extending Deployment Manager with Type Providers
It’s been just s few weeks since I complained that Google’s Deployment Manager (DM) doesn’t support its own latest Cloud Functions API, when I accidentally found an alternative way …
Few bugs (or features?) I managed to find in Google Cloud Platform so far
Working closely with GCP’s Deployment Manager recently, it was really hard not to notice that Google sometimes… makes bugs. Seriously. Not that many, I definitely …
Python templates in GCP Deployment Manager
Imagine we have Deployment Manager’s config file that creates a virtual machine from certain image and assigns an ephemeral public IP address to it. Something like this: …
Automating GCP Infrastructure with Deployment Manager
I don’t know how and why, but even though for the last couple of years I was spending at least few hours a week doing something …
Drones and possible blog theme shift
When I started this blog my initial impulse was to write about things that I usually work with or at least have a relation to. I …
Quick intro to helm – a package manager for Kubernetes
I suddenly realized that I haven’t blogged about Kubernetes for quite a while. But there’s so much happening in that area! For instance, even though creating …
The mystery of package downgrade issue
In last six or so weeks Microsoft managed to release whole bunch of .NET Core 2.1 SDKs (Preview 2, Release Candidate 1, Early Access, RTM) …
Service mesh implemented via iptables
So last time I mentioned, that another Kubernetes compatible service mesh – Conduit – has chosen another approach to solve the problem. Instead of enabling the mesh at machine …
Playing with a service mesh
I was looking for something new to play with the other day and somehow ended up with the thing called a service mesh. Pretty interesting …