Month: March 2021

  • Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Google Cloud Platform

    Designing for High Availability and Disaster Recovery in the Google Cloud Platform

    [et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] By now we are all aware of the data center in Strasbourg, France that completely burned down. This data center was owned by OVH. OVH is Europe’s largest cloud computing and web hosting company with headquarters in France. Mind that, a modern datacenter is not supposed to burn down […]

  • How to create a 3D spinning donut with Python, Blender, and some Donut-shaped math

    How to create a 3D spinning donut with Python, Blender, and some Donut-shaped math

    If you have been sleeping under a donut… I mean rock, you will not have heard yet of the donut-shaped C code that can generate a 3D spinning donut, projected onto 2D using ASCII characters. And if spinning a donut with ASCII characters is not hard enough, and it clearly wasn’t for Andy Sloane, this […]

  • How to deploy Flutter WebApp using Google AppEngine

    This is a series of Google Cloud Platform study notes: Domain, SSL, and Google Site (#1) Host Flutter WebApp using Google AppEngine (#2) Deploy Flutter WebApp using Google Cloud Run (#3) Host Flutter WebApp using Google Compute Engine (#4) Google provides various web hosting options: Compute Engine with Virtual machine, App Engine, Container, firebase, and […]

  • How to install Minikube and Kubectl on Windows 10

    How to install Minikube and Kubectl on Windows 10

    You want to develop in your Windows PC for Kubernetes so you can test your web application locally before deploying it to a managed Kubernetes cluster like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Engine or Google Kubernetes Engine. In that case, this is the guide for you. I will take through the steps so you can install Minikube […]

  • Flutter WebApp with GCP #1

    This is a series of Google Cloud Platform study notes: Domain, SSL, and Google Site (#1) Host Flutter WebApp using Google AppEngine (#2) Deploy Flutter WebApp using Google Cloud Run (#3) Host Flutter WebApp using Google Compute Engine (#4) I am going to use various tools from GCP and some might be overkill for a […]

  • Setting up Gitlab CI/CD with Skaffold for Google Kubernetes Engine

    Setting up Gitlab CI/CD with Skaffold for Google Kubernetes Engine

    In this article I will show you how to setup Gitlab CI/CD to deploy an application to Google Kubernetes Engine, using Skaffold, and dynamic environmments. If you don’t know Skaffold yet, Skaffold is a command-line tool developed by Google that makes it really easy to setup CI/CD for local, development and production environments with Kubernetes. […]

  • What is Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot and why it might(not) be for you

    What is Google Kubernetes Engine Autopilot and why it might(not) be for you

    GKE Autopilot is a fully managed Kubernetes cluster solution from Google, released last week in GA, that brings together all the best features in scaling, security, data operations the Google way. And the key to this new product, you only pay for the pods that you use, and the billing is based on the total […]