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Uptime Checks on Google Cloud

gcloud monitoring uptime list-configs --project=dml-sandbox-pigeon

---
checkerType: STATIC_IP_CHECKERS
displayName: hello-iam-direct

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Security Best Practices: Google Cloud

A set of links to official Google documentation for security best practices and services relevant to the security domain.

Tip

Need more advice? Reach out to me at Devil Mice Labs to book a workshop or a deep dive.

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The configuration uses default credentials as set up by:

databricks auth login --host https://9999487995419999.1.gcp.databricks.com/

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terraform {
  required_providers {
    databricks = {
      source  = "databricks/databricks"
      version = "1.74.0"
    }
    google = {
      source  = "hashicorp/google"
      version = "6.30.0"
    }

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Use reglient:

src="ghcr.io/iximiuz/labs/nginx:alpine"

dst="us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/dml-sandbox-firebass-21/demorepo/nginx:alpine"

curl -LO https://github.com/regclient/regclient/releases/download/v0.8.0/regctl-linux-amd64

chmod +x regctl-linux-amd64

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National flags in Windows fonts

Context

This gist contains a copy of my comment to a Medium article named Designing in the Open(Source) published by Microsoft Design (official account).

The article is about Fluent Emoji -- a collection of emoji from Microsoft. They are kind of a big deal because they are included with every copy of Windows operating system as a Segoe UI Emoji font.

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Google Cloud Blog post:

• Synthetic data generation with Dataflow data generator flex template

More detail on the Streaming Data Generator template:

• Streaming Data Generator to Pub/Sub, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage

The source code for the template:

• Dataflow Streaming Data Generator

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Datastore is weird!

It is a legacy service tied to App Engine. Once enabled, App Engine API cannot be disabled on a Cloud project.

Cloud projects can use either Datastore or Firestore but not both. Once set, it cannot be changed. Since all legacy App Engine apps use Datastore, a different project must be used for Firestore usage.

This Codelab gives some historical context on App Engine, Datastore, and Firestore.

For Python client for Datastore API there are at least two options:

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mkdir sandpit-one && cd $_
conda create --prefix ./conda --yes python=3.8 ipython
conda activate ./conda
python -m pip install --upgrade pip

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# Generate a random password
openssl rand -base64 18

# Display total size of a single directory in human-readable format
du -csh /home/oliver/

# Display size of everything in a directory in human-readable format
du -csh /home/oliver/*

# Compare the output of two programs without having to save it into files first.