A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
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To manage cloud infrastructure I’m a huge fan of Terraform. Unfortunately I noticed that it’s not possible to use Terraform for managing API Keys for Google Maps (and other services). After some digging I found that the alpha version of the Google Cloud SDK has support for it. Commands available in the stable gcloud release: …
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Google Cloud Platform has launched official support for PHP Cloud Functions using Functions Framework for PHP. With it, an HTTP Cloud Function becomes as simple as this: use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface; function helloHttp(ServerRequestInterface $request): string { $queryString = $request->getQueryParams(); $name = $queryString['name'] ?? $name; return sprintf('Hello, %s!', $name); } Functions that respond to Cloud Events can work …
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Interesting read how Greg Wilson built ChessMsgs.com, a website that can track chess games played by sending links to eachother. Instead of tweeting moves back and forth, players tweet links back and forth, and those links go to a site that renders the current chessboard, allows a new move, and creates a new link to …
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At Google Cloud Next ’20, Cloud Run Product Manager Steren Giannini (@steren) walked us through some of the new things that are coming to Google Cloud Run. Some highlights: VPC Peering Gradual Rollouts (with custom URLs per tagged release) New Load-Balancing Features (Multi Region, Cloud CDN, IAP) Easy Continuous Deployment Min instances (no cold starts) …
Back in June I was invited to speak at JSConf.be. This year’s edition focused on DevSecOps and Security. My talk “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run” — which I have brought forward before at Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL — was a perfect match for it. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by …
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When building Docker images locally it will leverage its build cache: When building an image, Docker steps through the instructions in your Dockerfile, executing each in the order specified. As each instruction is examined, Docker looks for an existing image in its cache that it can reuse, rather than creating a new (duplicate) image. Therefore …
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Recently I was invited as a speaker to Full Stack Ghent and PHP-WVL. At both events I brought a new talk called “Going Serverless with Google Cloud Run”. Cloud Run is a fully managed compute platform by Google that automatically scales stateless containers. By abstracting away all infrastructure management, us developers can focus on what …
gcr-cleaner GCR Cleaner deletes untagged images in Google Container Registry. This can help reduce costs and keep your container images list in order. GCR Cleaner is designed to be deployed as a Cloud Run service and invoked periodically via Cloud Scheduler. Clever! All commands to install this one are provided. gcr-cleaner →
google/cloud-functions-framework – Google Cloud Functions Framework for PHP google/cloud-functions-framework is an open source FaaS (Function as a Service) Framework for writing portable PHP functions. An example function looks like this: <?php use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; function helloHttp(Request $request) { return "Hello World from PHP HTTP function!" . PHP_EOL; } One can invoke it locally by executing the included router as follows: export FUNCTION_TARGET=helloHttp export FUNCTION_SIGNATURE_TYPE=http …
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Simple and to the point article, with a few commands included, by Dirk Hoekstra: In a nutshell, you give Google’s Cloud Run a Docker container containing a webserver. Google will run this container and create an HTTP endpoint. With Google’s App Engine however you tell Google how your app should be run. The App Engine …
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