Jan 2Create a secure access to your API on Azure with Front Door and the API Management serviceThis article describes how expose APIs using Azure services like Front Door Api Management Azure Function Azure AD with a secure approach and avoiding VNET integrations and complex segregated network architecture. Azure Front Door As Microsoft describes at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/frontdoor/classic-overview Azure Front Door (classic) is a global, scalable entry-point that uses the Microsoft global…Azure10 min readAzure10 min read
Oct 16, 2022Terraform templates to deploy an API on GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine)In 2 previous articles we have seen how it is possible to deploy an API based on the HAPI framework and create a Kubernetes cluster to for a single Flask application. We’ll go a step further using Terraform to orchestrate the complete deployment: build the VPC and the GKE cluster…Kubernetes4 min readKubernetes4 min read
Aug 8, 2022Terraform templates to run GCP Cloud Function periodically with Cloud SchedulerI decided to start using Terraform as solution for the infrastructure as code and to move the first steps with it I’ve decided to create a small project that help to low costs and CO2 emissions of Cloud usage. The first tool of this project is a small application that…Terraform4 min readTerraform4 min read
May 26, 2022Deploy to Cloud Run an API built with HAPI frameworkThe application is quite easy. We use Airtable to store a list of services and we want to create an APIs based on the HAPI framework to retrieve the list through a GET method. Airtable setup First we create a base in Airtable (called “Services”) and a view that we call “General”: …Google Cloud Run4 min readGoogle Cloud Run4 min read
May 21, 2022Quick cleaning of GCP projects from the command lineThe GCP user interface is quite cool and really usable but some operations can be done without going on it and often, it can be faster. Let’s see for example how quickly we can see the projects in our GCP account and choose some to delete List the projects First…Gcp1 min readGcp1 min read
Apr 16, 2022Cloud CO2 Footprint Calculators — Part 2: Azure Emissions Impact DashboardConsidering the impact of any personal and professional activities on climate change is becoming more and more important. IT projects also start to consider this aspect during the design phase: digital has already an important weight on the global CO2 emissions and this will quickly grow in the next years. …Azure3 min readAzure3 min read
Mar 5, 2022Cloud CO2 Footprint Calculators — Part 1: the GCP Carbon FootprintConsidering the impact of any personal and professional activities on climate change is becoming more and more important. IT projects also start to consider this aspect during the design phase: digital has already an important weight on the global CO2 emissions and this will quickly grow in the next years. …Gcp2 min readGcp2 min read
Oct 17, 2021Create Kubernetes clusters on GCP and deploy applicationsAfter having analyzed the different components of Kubernetes, let’s go in a more practical example deploying a simple application on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). We’ll use the command line tools gcloud, docker and kubectl. Be sure your gcloud cli is configured with the correct project and region on which…Gcp4 min readGcp4 min read
Published in Geek Culture·Jul 4, 2021Google Kubernetes Engine Part 1: Nodes, Pods, Controllers and Services (Road to Google Associate Cloud Engineer 2020 certification)Kubernetes is one of the most important argument of the certification. The Google Kubernetes Engine is a cluster manager and orchestrator for running Docker containers. It schedules containers into a cluster and automatically manages them based on requirements defined declaratively using configuration files (YAML format). Kubernetes includes a number of…Gcp4 min readGcp4 min read
Apr 25, 2021Cloud Run (Road to Google Associate Cloud Engineer 2020 certification)Cloud Run is a totally managed service to deploy containerized application without having knowledge on Kubernetes. It’s based upon an open standard Knative allowing applications portability. It’s suitable for stateless HTTP applications and it allows to use any languages and libraries. There are 2 different typologies for the service: Cloud…Google Cloud Run3 min readGoogle Cloud Run3 min read
