Articles
Creating a Password Protected Website with IAP and Google App Engine
April 30, 2020
Categories: Tags: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
Kubernetes the Hard Way Deep Dive -- 03 (Provisioning Compute Resources)
April 13, 2020
Categories: Tags: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
Kubernetes the Hard Way Deep Dive -- 01 & 02 (System Set Up)
April 12, 2020
Categories: Tags:TL;DR: Setting up GCP account, and installing various software prerequisites (gcloud, tmux, cfssl and kubectl)
KTHW Lessons:
Is this the Matrix?
Kubernetes the Hard Way Deep Dive -- Intro
April 11, 2020
Categories: Tags: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.
Turning off Google Analytics for Local Hugo Server
April 3, 2020
Categories: Tags:TL;DR: If using Google Analytics, most Hugo themes load the tracking script even when running locally. This causes a bunch of bogus page views when writing a new article. Creating separate config files for development and production is an easy way to fix this.
Whoops… that’s me visiting my site on localhost
Load Testing Caddy Web Server on a GCP F1-Micro Instance Using K6 (k6.io)
March 24, 2020
Categories: Tags:TL;DR: I used the K6 load testing framework to benchmark the Compute Engine f1-micro and Caddy web server hosting this site. With CloudFlare caching turned off, the server was able to serve an onslaught 800 virtual users continuously reloading the page (while maintaining a median request duration of <400ms), but started dropping requests when increasing the load further.
