A huge paradigm shift has been occurring with businesses moving towards managing applications rather than worrying about managing the components of the Kubernetes cluster itself, such as the initial number and scaling of nodes, or other operational requirements. Let’s take a look at why you would need a managed Kubernetes cluster in the first place. […]
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Deploying a host project provides centralized network resources, firewall rules, configurations, and infrastructure-based operations. These centralized network resources allow for easier administration and troubleshooting. Additionally, and significantly, deploying network resources as a host project does not affect the deployment of compute or other resources in Google Cloud. This article shares why a host project is
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Google has recently announced their ARM CPU machines types. Kubernetes has had support for ARM machines for some time (as evidenced by the proliferation of Raspberry Pi clusters), however running a mixed architecture cluster poses some challenges. This guide covers how to run CPU-specific workloads on mixed clusters, and provides an example of how to
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Google is adding ARM instance types to its compute engine at a significant price and performance advantage to the existing x86_64 instances. In this article we’ll cover building multi-platform, multi-architecture Docker images using GitHub Actions, publishing those images to a private Docker registry hosted on Google Artifact Repository, and pulling and running those images on
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API keys are alphanumeric strings that are used in cases where a simple identification is needed without full blown authentication. In Google Cloud Platform terms, they can be used to access APIs while identifying the calling application without a principal. Google Cloud offers a simple interface for creating, updating, and managing API keys and their
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