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Take control of your Kubernetes networking with Istio and Kiali

Istio is a powerful service mesh that integrates natively with Kubernetes that acts as a service mesh as well as ingress and egress gateways in many effective customer solutions. It provides almost limitless flexibility with service-to-service communication and end user routing. Jon Chen, SADA Sr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer tells us how to use this powerful […]

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Installing and configuring HCX for Google Cloud VMware Engine

Application Modernization, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure Modernization / SADA Engineering

VMware HCX is an application mobility platform designed to simplify application migration, workload rebalancing, and business continuity across data centers and cloud networks. VMware HCX on GCVE comes with an add-on Enterprise License that enables all the features and functionalities available in HCX. VMware HCX makes the journey of moving to GCVE much easier as

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How to use JSON Web Tokens for service-to-service authentication

Google Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Infrastructure Modernization / SADA Engineering

Do you have a microservice that is going to be consumed by various clients running on Google Compute Engine (GCE) instances in a VPC? Those clients are other microservices or applications running on instances. Sounds like normal service-to-service connectivity, right? In Google Cloud Platform (GCP), we can expose our microservice using the API Gateway. API

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Automating scheduled email using a Google Apps script

Google Workspace, Productivity & Collaboration / SADA Engineering

Have you ever wondered how you could automate tasks in Google Workspace without using a tool developed by an external entity? Google thought about that, too.In this article, we will look at how you can use this added functionality to automate tasks in your Drive files, such as Sheets, Forms, Docs, and so on, using

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Using native tools in Google Cloud to build and deploy your application

Application Modernization, Google Cloud Platform / SADA Engineering

You’ve migrated your systems and services to the cloud. Now that it’s been accomplished, you want to take advantage of the benefits that the cloud provides for faster, more agile software development. But do you know that Google Cloud Platform has all the tools one needs to go about setting up DevOps and CI/CD? Google

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