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Looking for an emulator for Cloud Tasks?
By Joshua FoxAug 10, 20205 min read

Looking for an emulator for Cloud Tasks?

Introducing a simple Tasks emulator that makes it easy to deploy and debug.

Fast Disks At Nearly Half Price!
By Mike SparrAug 3, 20205 min read

Fast Disks At Nearly Half Price!

A Look At Google Cloud Platform’s New Balanced SSD

My experience with AWS Snowcone
By Avi KeinanJul 30, 20203 min read

My experience with AWS Snowcone

From ordering the device, transferring data, and returning it back to AWS.

Automating Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Config With Argo CD
By Mike SparrJul 27, 20204 min read

Automating Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Config With Argo CD

Recreating Anthos Config Management (ACM) using Argo CD to automate kubernetes cluster configuration.

DoiT International Appoints Chief People Officer
By Maya AvitanJul 26, 20203 min read

DoiT International Appoints Chief People Officer

DoiT International announced today the expansion of its leadership team with the naming of Kristen Tronsky as Chief People Officer.

Helping A Business Incrementally Migrate From AWS and Cloudflare to Google Cloud
By Mike SparrJul 24, 20204 min read

Helping A Business Incrementally Migrate From AWS and Cloudflare to Google Cloud

As companies transition their technology stacks to become more cloud-native, a trend we’re seeing is partial cloud migrations, or hybrid cloud configurations, often as interim steps to full migrations.

The hidden costs of Datastore
By Joshua FoxJul 23, 20203 min read

The hidden costs of Datastore

Datastore export costs don’t show up in Monitoring. Here’s how to set up real-time alerts to better keep track of export costs.

Automatically Mounting NFS on Linux Instances
By Sayle MatthewsJul 20, 20208 min read

Automatically Mounting NFS on Linux Instances

A few weeks ago I ran into, what I thought at the time, a very unique use case on migrating a lot of VMs in my home lab to using Kubernetes: automatically mounting a NFS volume to a Linux machine or Docker container.

Automatically Mounting NFS Volumes to a Linux Instance
By Sayle MatthewsJul 20, 20208 min read

Automatically Mounting NFS Volumes to a Linux Instance

How to set up automatic mounting of NFS volumes inside of a Linux machine or container using autofs.

Safe Scrub: Clean up your Google Cloud projects.
By Joshua FoxJul 16, 20206 min read

Safe Scrub: Clean up your Google Cloud projects.

Safely delete the resources cluttering your Dev and QA projects.

View GCP User Role Assignments
By Garrett SchaefferJul 6, 20201 min read

View GCP User Role Assignments

Often, when troubleshooting user access we need to understand the roles assigned to a user. When using email or similar electronic…

Too Many Threads in Cloud Pub/Sub
By Joshua FoxJul 5, 20201 min read

Too Many Threads in Cloud Pub/Sub

How to slim down the Publisher to a manageable amount of threads.