Feb 22Silly Sit-Downs with Rohan (SSD-02): An interview with Aditya Raj, Senior DevOps Engineer at Srijan TechnologiesI welcome all readers to February month of Silly Sit-Downs(SSD) with Rohan — an interview series with industry professionals irrespective of their genre; the purpose of these interviews is to have insightful conversations, understand people better and get rich perspicuity into career and community. I hope everyone is doing great. …Interview12 min readInterview12 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Feb 1Access GCP resources from GKE via Workload IdentityRecently, we’ve implemented GCP Workload Identity in one of our potential customers’ applications(running on GKE) to access GCP services distinctly and securely. In this blog, I’m going to show how can we leverage the power of GCP Workload Identity for secure access. …Workload Identity4 min readWorkload Identity4 min read
Jan 23Silly Sit-Downs with Rohan (SSD-01): An interview with Pranay Nanda, Customer Engineer at GoogleWith “Lord Shiva Blessing”, I’m thrilled to share the news that in 2023, I’m stepping into something new for me — “Silly Sit-Downs with Rohan", an interview series with industry professionals irrespective of their genre. The reason behind starting this series is to have insightful conversations, understand people better and…Interview15 min readInterview15 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Dec 8, 2022Using Slack to automate manual approvals in Google Cloud BuildRecently, one of our potential and indispensable customers wanted to have Manual Approval in Cloud Build which allows them to see how infrastructure would look in production. …Google Cloud Platform8 min readGoogle Cloud Platform8 min read
Published in Searce·May 5, 2022Using Pre-Scripts in VM Manager to patch GCP VMs (OS Patch Management)VM Manager by GCP is no doubt absolutely a great tool that alleviates our overhead management of patching or OS Configuration with just a few clicks or gcloud commands. Today we are going to talk about OS Patch Management offering in VM Manager. Recently we’d a requirement of taking disk…Gcp6 min readGcp6 min read
Published in Searce·Sep 28, 2021Build Machine Images with Packer on Google Cloud PlatformIn September month blog, I’ll be taking everyone through Packer where we’ll be building Google Compute Engine Instance Custom Machine Image aka Golden Image. Hashicorp Packer Packer is an open-source, lightweight, highly performant tool created by Hashicorp to build identical and automated machine images aka Golden Image which stores all configurations, permissions…Hashicorp Packer5 min readHashicorp Packer5 min read
Published in Searce·Aug 16, 2021Automate and Deploy Springboot app as a Service in GCE VMIn this August month blog, I’ll be going through how we can automate the deployment of our spring-boot application in GCE VM as a service via GitLab CI. Prerequisites GitLab CI server Google Compute Engine VM with OSLogin Enabled SpringBoot Application Automation WorkflowGitlab5 min readGitlab5 min read
Published in Searce·Jun 21, 2021Automating Terraform with GitHub ActionsTerraform Terraform is a marvellous open-source for infrastructure provisioning and management — infrastructure-as-code (IaC). With the help of Terraform now we can code our infrastructure in a declarative manner using blocks, arguments, and expressions, so no more click, click on UI and remembering what resources you’ve created; terraform is here to…Github Actions6 min readGithub Actions6 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Dec 28, 2020Firebase Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) with Google Cloud BuildIn this December month article, I’ll be walking you through the CI/CD of Firebase with Google Cloud Build. Firebase Firebase is an amazing platform totally dedicated to mobile and web apps from startups to global enterprises, it’s backed by Google and comes with pre-packaged, open-source bundles of code to automate common…Cloud Build5 min readCloud Build5 min read
Published in Searce·Sep 20, 2020Multibranch and HA Pipeline in Jenkins with Kaniko on GKEIn this September month article, I’ll be sharing why and how to create a highly available multibranch pipeline in Jenkins with Kaniko. UPDATED ON: May 20, 2021 Some not so deep concepts… Multibranch Pipeline Multibranch pipeline in Jenkins allows creating and triggering pipeline based on branch and pull requests. We create different Jenkinsfile for the different branches…Cicd9 min readCicd9 min read
