November 11, 2020
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TL;DR: If you develop web applications, inevitably you will have secrets (database credentials, 3rd party API keys, etc…) that you need to manage. I have seen a variety of approaches used here and wanted to walk through them, from least secure to most.
There are always trade-offs when writing software, and in this case the tradeoff is between convenience and security. The ideal solution will establish convenient developer workflows while also protecting user data.
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October 5, 2020
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TL;DR: I used to host my site on a virtual machine running Caddy webserver, but recently migrated it to Google Cloud Storage with Cloudflare in front of it as a proxy/cache/SSL termination solution. It’s pretty awesome! 😎
I also recorded a video about this setup on YouTube. ← Check out the video and subscribe if you are into this sort of thing 🙏
Does this count as serverless?
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April 30, 2020
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TL;DR: If you have a static website that needs to be password protected, using Google’s Identity Aware Proxy along with App Engine is one of the simplest ways to accomplish this.
If you want to follow along with a site of your own, I have provided a working example in this GitHub repo.
Note: I have also seen S3 + Lambda used to accomplish this
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April 13, 2020
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TL;DR: Setting up a Virtual Private Cloud (network), configuring firewall rules, and provisioning the Compute Engine virtual machine instances!
KTHW Lesson: 03-compute-resources.md
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April 12, 2020
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TL;DR: Setting up GCP account, and installing various software prerequisites (gcloud, tmux, cfssl and kubectl)
KTHW Lessons:
Is this the Matrix?
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April 11, 2020
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TL;DR: This is the introduction to a series of posts in which I will work through Kelsey Hightower’s Kubernetes The Hard Way, explaining key concepts in detail along the way.
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