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How Kubernetes Updates Work on Container Engine
I often get asked when I talk about Container Engine (GKE): How are upgrades to Kubernetes handled? Masters As we spell out in the documentation, upgrades to Kubernetes masters on GKE are handled by...
View ArticleMakefile – quick series
Before joining Google Cloud, I wasn’t programming as much as I used to. So when I joined up the last build system I had used with any regularity was ANT. Upon getting back in the routine of...
View ArticleMakefile – Get dynamic values from gcloud
Most of the time when I create something in my environment on Google Cloud Platform, I give it a specific name. For example, I create servers and call them “ThingIWillReferenceLaterWhenIDeleteYou” or...
View ArticleMakefile – Delete Forwarding Rules
I have a demo where I build a Kubernetes cluster on Container Engine to run a LAMP app. In the demo, I script out a complete build process from an empty project to the full running app. Testing this...
View ArticleMakefile – Clean App Engine flexible environment
One of the more interesting quirks of App Engine flexible environment is that App Engine launches Compute Engine virtual machines that you can’t spin down directly. The way to spin down App Engine flex...
View ArticleMakefile – Tell me when you are done
I have been doing a large number of tasks lately that involve executing long-running processes from a Makefile — maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 seconds to 5 minutes. They’re just long...
View ArticleMakefile – Launch 20 Compute Engine virtual machines at once.
We’re going to try something a lot more complex in make now. I’m going to dynamically create 20 Compute Engine virtual machines that are absolutely the same. This requires quite a bit more complexity,...
View ArticleMakefile – Start, Stop or Delete 20 VMs at once
Last time I created 20 virtual machines at once. Now I want to stop those machines, or start them back up, or delete them. Basically, I want to do bulk operations on all of the machines that I am...
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Whack-a-pod
Earlier this week, I released an open source version of “Whack a Pod,” a demo that we at Google Cloud have been using at Google Cloud Next, Google I/O and at various regional events. For those that...
View ArticleMakefile – Get Compute Engine Instance IP
I have a test that requires me to spin up a VM with a service running on port 80. I’d need to test if that service is working, but the machine itself is irrelevant, so I’m not bothering to give it a...
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