gcloud builds submit command submits a build to the GCP Cloud Build service and uses the Dockerfile from the build context. Sometimes, we may want to specify the Dockerfile while running the command. For instance, in one of my projects, I have Dockerfile.stage and Dockerfile.prod that I want to use separately with gcloud builds submit […]
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers a product called Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP) that helps guard access to your applications running on App Engine, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, GKE or On-premises (outside GCP in your own data centres or a different cloud provider). Think OAuth-based authentication right at the load balancer level before a request is able […]
Recently I was trying to figure out how to generate an ID Token using the Firebase Admin SDK but it seems like there’s no direct function exposed by the SDK that allows that. Instead, we can use the GCP Identity Platform REST API, which Firebase Auth is also based on, to exchange a custom token […]
One of my Compute Engine VM instances on GCP with a boot disk of 10GB suddenly stopped accepting SSH connections. This was really weird. So I tried troubleshooting (as seen in the output above): So it turned out that I could not SSH because my boot disk was full. Entire 10GB of disk space exhausted! […]
If you are running an application on a GCP Compute Engine VM instance and want its logs to be collected and streamed into Cloud Logging, then you will have to use an agent that GCP provides called Ops Agent. It’s a single agent that uses Fluent Bit for logging and the OpenTelemetry Collector for metrics […]
I had to recently migrate the DNS configurations (A, AAAA CNAME, TXT, MX, etc. records) for a particular domain from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud Platform Cloud DNS. Doing it is really simple – you just need to export the zone file from DO and then import the same into GCP Cloud DNS (using the gcloud […]