The Google Cloud Platform team has launched its Google Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool. Let’s take a look. — During the week, Google Developer Advocate Priyanka Vergadia announced the launch of an architecture diagramming tool. The announcement created a buzz, especially as alternatives often require using icon sets inside more generic diagramming tools like Lucid or Visio. Whatever your role within Technology, chances are you will have produced or…

Automate the CI/CD pipeline for your Firebase Functions with GitHub Actions and a Google Service Account. — This short article will walk through the configuration required to automate the deployment of your Firebase Functions using GitHub Actions. Get Started With CI/CD Using GitHub Actions In this introduction to GitHub Actions, we’ll explore how to build and deploy a Python Flask application to AWS Elastic…medium.com

This tutorial will guide you through creating a CI/CD Pipeline on the Google Cloud Platform using Cloud Build and Cloud Deploy. — Cloud Deploy is the latest service from Google in the Continuous Delivery space and automates deployments of your application into your GKE clusters. Under the covers it leverages Cloud Build for its job execution platform, integrates with Cloud Operations suite and Cloud Pub/Sub for further automation, and captures and reports…

This short tutorial will guide you through creating a Docker container image using Cloud Build for build, test, and deployment automation. — Join me for a brief introduction to Google Cloud Build, as we walk through writing our first build pipeline using Google’s CI/CD platform. …

A two minute Apache + NGINX guide to redirecting all traffic on your website from the bare non-ww domain to www. — It is a common requirement for system and website administrators to redirect users to a common entry point for their website — also known as a canonical hostname. This is usually in one of two directions, i.e. www to non-www or non-www to www. This brief guide shows techniques for…

Introduction to the core concepts of Git, one of the most common source code management systems. — Git is a free and open source distributed version control system. It’s incredibly powerful and prevalent in the IT industry, meaning that having at least a basic understanding of Git is crucial for most tech roles. The core concepts are best explained via a series of practical examples, which we…

Use “git bundle” to help archive git repositories to AWS Glacier or GCS Coldline storage. — Bitbucket Server is organised into projects each of which contains multiple repositories. Now let’s take an example of an organisation migrating tens of thousands of repositories away from their hosted Bitbucket Server set up. Not all of these repositories were being migrated. Many tens, if not hundreds of these projects…

This quickstart guide will show you how to use GitHub Actions to deploy a Python Flask application AWS Elastic Beanstalk. — All the code for this guide and the workflow can be found on GitHub. Introduction to three areas in scope of this article; The Flask application — a simple “Hello World!” example. AWS Elastic Beanstalk — a service that automates the deployment and scaling of a web application. …

Speed up your WordPress website with AWS CloudFront CDN serving all your images, css, and javascript content. — I recently helped out a WordPress site owner — let’s call our site owner “Joe”. Joe was struggling to get WP Rocket working with AWS CloudFront for stylesheets and javascript. …