Kubnernetes and GKE Basics
(This is work in progress…based on GKE docs and some quiklabs) Kubernetes only manages nodes – the nodes can be anything (VMs with Kubelet and Kube-Proxy installed) Kubernetes…
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In Transit Encryption in GCP
Also read At Rest Encryption in GCP. Overview – Network Layer Automatic Encryption At the network layer, Google Cloud’s virtual network infrastructure automatically encrypts VM to VM traffic…
Special Identities in GCP
There are two special identies in cloud IAM. These are used for a variety of services that have special needs around auth-N AllUsers and AllAuthenticatedUsers Cloud Storage (ACLs…
Types of Load Balancers – GCP
Also read Unmanaged and Managed Instance Groups in GCP GLOBAL Load Balancers 1. HTTPs load balancing Service in GCP AnyCast IP Address (Can be used anywhere), It is…
Unmanaged versus Managed Instance Groups
Also read, Load Balancers on GCP Why use Unmanaged Groups at all? If you need to included instances from different families, this is your only option. You would…
Cloud Dataflow and DataPrep – ETL on GCP
Also Read BigQuery Basics DataFlow – Data Pipeline Service – DeDuping, Grouping, Aggregating – Transformations ETL, Open Source using Beam Intelligently scale to millions of QPS Stream and…
Best Practices around Service Accounts
Also read – Service Accounts in GCP and a 2 minute Security Solution for GCP Environments Service Accounts as an alternative to embedding app credentials Service accounts are…
Peered VPCs versus Shared VPCs in Google Cloud
Also read Shared VPCs – for Production and Non Production Existing CIDR Blocks VPC a – 10.7.0.0/24 VPC b – 172.30.0.0/24 On Prem CIDR – 10.0.0.0/8 IMP: Since…
Log Based Metrics – Stackdriver GCP
Also read Error Reporting on GCP, Agent Metrics on GCP and Debugging on GCP Google Cloud Monitoring Basics Logging on GCP and Service Accounts in GCP Overview One…
3rd party VPNs with GCP
Cloud VPN Interop Guides Support for multiple 3rd party VPNs with Cloud VPN