| Azure – Lock a VM to Prevent Deletion | Introduction You are busy developing. It is late at night. You decide to delete one … | 2021/09/19 | Azure, Terraform | 2021-09-19 22:44:51 |
| Azure – Recovering from UFW firewall lockout – Ubuntu | Introduction You have a Ubuntu instance running in an Azure Virtual Machine. You connect to … | 2021/09/17 | Azure, Ubuntu | 2021-09-17 21:10:11 |
| Deep Dive into Google Cloud IAM Signblob and Service Accounts | IAM Signblob and Service Accounts A Google Cloud Service Account contains an RSA key pair. … | 2021/08/25 | Google | 2021-08-25 00:55:13 |
| Google Cloud Application Default Credentials – PHP | Application Default Credentials This article will cover Google Cloud Application Default Credentials (ADC) and how … | 2021/08/18 | Google | 2021-08-18 19:53:44 |
| What is Amezmo? | What is Amezmo? Amezmo is an excellent platform for .NET Core and PHP applications. Amezmo … | 2021/07/25 | Amezmo | 2021-07-25 17:48:19 |
| Laravel – Redirecting HTTP to HTTPS | Introduction Once you have an SSL certificate configured, the next step is to redirect unencrypted … | 2021/06/22 | Google, Laravel | 2021-06-22 22:54:16 |
| Laravel – Displaying a GitHub Gist | Introduction Today (June 14, 2021) I answered a question on Stackoverflow regarding the Google Cloud … | 2021/06/15 | GitHub, Laravel | 2021-06-15 10:24:07 |
| WireGuard Introduction | Introduction This article is the first in a series of using WireGuard in the cloud. … | 2021/03/10 | WireGuard | 2021-03-10 01:42:03 |
| Terraform – Experiments with Google Cloud DNS and IAM | Introduction I am currently preparing to recertify for the Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification. … | 2021/03/07 | Google, Terraform | 2021-03-07 00:42:42 |
| Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Recertification | This article is a journal of my path to take the Google Professional Cloud Security … | 2021/03/02 | Certification, Cloud, Security, Terraform | 2021-03-02 16:52:30 |
| Google Cloud Run – Debugging an ASP.NET Core Time Zone Issue | Introduction I am writing ASP.NET Core code for an automated cloud directory synchronization process that … | 2020/09/20 | Cloud | 2020-09-20 15:30:23 |
| Hostwinds – Virtual Private Servers | Introduction One of the things that I love about the cloud, is that you can … | 2020/08/02 | Cloud | 2020-08-02 14:34:36 |
| What programming language do I write software in? | Introduction I recently had a conversation with the Principle Security Architect for a large company … | 2020/03/21 | Programming | 2020-03-21 15:23:07 |
| Google Cloud – Improving Security with Impersonation | Introduction A common practice in Google Cloud is to create one or more service accounts … | 2020/03/15 | Cloud, Google | 2020-03-15 22:44:42 |
| PowerShell – Impersonate Google Service Account | Introduction This article shows how to impersonate a service account from user account credentials. To … | 2020/03/15 | Google | 2020-03-15 22:43:25 |
| Google Cloud Compute – Mastering SSH | Introduction One of the more frequent problems on Stackoverflow is Compute Engine SSH. This article … | 2020/02/10 | Google | 2020-02-10 21:43:36 |
| Certification Practice Tests | What is a Certification Practice Test? There are two types: Practice Questions and Practice Tests. … | 2020/01/14 | Certification | 2020-01-14 10:40:28 |
| Microsoft Security Certifications – New Year’s Resolution | Introduction I am working on two new security certifications for my new year’s resolution. My … | 2020/01/11 | Certification | 2020-01-11 12:17:02 |
| IBM Cloud – New Website | Today I moved all of my IBM Cloud and Red Hat OpenShift content to a … | 2019/10/22 | IBM, OpenShift | 2019-10-22 16:24:42 |
| Socratica Python Kickstarter Project | Socratica Python Kickstarter Campaign Introduction from Socratica’s Kickstarter Campaign Socratica – a small educational … | 2019/09/23 | Programming | 2019-09-23 12:34:55 |
| Never Implement Proxy TLS Interception | Introduction I was answering a question on StackOverflow. The questioner has implemented Proxy TLS Interception … | 2019/09/22 | Security | 2019-09-22 11:43:56 |
| Google Cloud – SSL Certificates the Easy Way | Introduction I use SSL certificates for everything. I am constantly creating them for internal systems … | 2019/09/15 | Cloud, Security | 2019-09-15 11:58:45 |
| Cloud Storage Bytes – New Training Videolab | This training videolab is a collection of videos Google Cloud created by Jennifer Brown @jbrojbrojbro. … | 2019/08/22 | Cloud | 2019-08-22 15:48:59 |
| Get Cooking in Cloud – New Training Videolab | Introduction This training videolab is a collection of videos Google Cloud created by Priyanka Vergadia @pvergadia. … | 2019/08/22 | Cloud | 2019-08-22 12:19:09 |
| Google Cloud SQL for MySQL – Connection Security, High Availability and Failover | Introduction Designing an application that incorporates Google Cloud SQL requires some thought. There are several … | 2019/08/15 | Cloud, Security | 2019-08-15 21:33:47 |
| Introduction to Python – New Training Videolab | Introduction I watch a lot of training material from all the major education vendors (Pluralsight, … | 2019/08/07 | Cloud | 2019-08-07 14:35:56 |
| Google Cloud SQL – New Training Videolab | Introduction I watch a lot of training material from all the major education vendors (Pluralsight, … | 2019/08/07 | Cloud | 2019-08-07 11:01:47 |
| Google Cloud SQL Proxy – Installing as a Service on GCE | Introduction Google Cloud SQL Proxy provides secure access to Cloud SQL Second Generation instances without … | 2019/07/28 | Cloud, Security | 2019-07-28 15:33:53 |
| Google Cloud Run Deep Dive – Understanding the APIs – Part 2 | Introduction This article discusses mapping custom domains for Google Cloud Run Managed. In a future … | 2019/07/14 | Cloud, golang | 2019-07-14 15:26:48 |
| Google Cloud Run Deep Dive – Understanding the APIs – Part 1 | Introduction To understand Google Cloud Run, you must peel back the layers and look at … | 2019/07/13 | Cloud, golang | 2019-07-13 13:05:22 |
| Google Cloud Platform – Getting Started | Introduction Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services. Google has everything from … | 2019/07/07 | Cloud | 2019-07-07 12:40:11 |
| Google Cloud Run – Minimizing Cold Starts | Introduction This article discusses Google Cloud Run cold starts, what they are and how to … | 2019/07/06 | Cloud | 2019-07-06 14:58:11 |
| Google Cloud – HTTP Load Balancer File Upload Error | Introduction This article is about how to upload files to Compute Engine fronted by a … | 2019/07/06 | Cloud | 2019-07-06 13:55:20 |
| Google Cloud Shell – CLI in Go | Google Cloud Shell CLI Written in Go This is a placeholder until I write this … | 2019/06/29 | Cloud, golang | 2019-06-29 17:23:54 |
| Security – Key Pairs and Private-Public Keys | Table of Contents Introduction Definitions Example Private & Public Keys OpenSSH Public Keys SSH-2 Public … | 2019/06/19 | Cloud | 2019-06-19 20:22:35 |
| Google Cloud Run – Simple File Server in Go | Introduction This article shows how to serve files with Google Cloud Run. There are a … | 2019/06/17 | Cloud, golang | 2019-06-17 19:19:42 |
| Google Cloud – Go – Identity Based Access Control | Introduction This article will discuss several key features if you are programming for Google Cloud … | 2019/06/13 | Cloud, golang, Security | 2019-06-13 16:48:41 |
| Google Cloud and Go – My Journey to Learn a new Language in 30 days | Part 1: Introduction Today I decided to learn Go in the next 30 days and … | 2019/06/11 | Cloud, golang | 2019-06-11 20:18:53 |
| Google Cloud Asset Inventory – Reverse Engineering an API | Introduction This article describes a missing item from the articles and documentation on Google Cloud … | 2019/06/07 | Cloud | 2019-06-07 00:16:40 |
| Google Cloud Run – Identity | Introduction Sometimes your Google Cloud Run app needs to communicate with or consume other services. … | 2019/06/03 | Cloud | 2019-06-03 01:36:37 |
| Google Cloud Run – Pricing | Introduction Google Cloud Run charges you for the resources you use when you use them. … | 2019/05/27 | Cloud | 2019-05-27 11:41:03 |
| Google Developers Experts – Cloud Platform | Google Experts Program Google has honored me with Google Developers Experts Cloud Platform. I am … | 2019/05/22 | Cloud | 2019-05-22 21:06:37 |
| GitHub – New Public Repository | Starting today, I am copying all of my source code for the articles on this … | 2019/05/15 | Cloud | 2019-05-15 21:37:50 |
| Google Cloud Run – HTTPS – Part 2 | Introduction This article discusses HTTP to HTTPS redirection in software. I will show you one … | 2019/05/15 | Cloud | 2019-05-15 21:18:47 |
| Google Cloud Run – HTTPS – Part 1 | Introduction This article discusses HTTP to HTTPS redirection as implemented by Google Cloud Run. Today, … | 2019/05/13 | Cloud | 2019-05-13 12:49:12 |
| Google Cloud – Backup Bitnami WordPress | Introduction My personal website which covers articles about Google Cloud has been growing both in … | 2019/05/12 | Cloud | 2019-05-12 14:34:19 |
| Google Cloud – HTTP Load Balancer and IPv6 | Introduction This article covers how to add IPv6 to a load balancer on Google … | 2019/05/11 | Cloud | 2019-05-11 20:41:46 |
| Google Cloud Run – Getting Started with Python and Flask | Introduction On August 15, 2018, Google released the Alpha release of Google Cloud Run. Many … | 2019/05/10 | Cloud | 2019-05-10 14:26:58 |
| Google G Suite – How to Analyze an Email Ransom Demand | Introduction Date created: May 7, 2019 Last updated: May 7, 2019 Today I received an … | 2019/05/07 | Cloud, G Suite | 2019-05-07 22:24:28 |
| Google G Suite – Sender Policy Framework – SPF | Date created: May 4, 2019 Last updated: May 5, 2019 Gmail stats graphic courtesy Google … | 2019/05/04 | Cloud, G Suite | 2019-05-04 15:35:54 |
| Google Domains – Purchasing a Domain Name | Date created: May 2, 2019 Last updated: May 4, 2019 Introduction For the articles on … | 2019/05/02 | Cloud, G Suite | 2019-05-02 18:22:07 |
| Google Cloud Certification Badges | I think that Google has done a nice job creating certification badges. Certify with Google … | 2019/04/23 | Certification, Cloud | 2019-04-23 13:11:27 |
| Google Cloud Memorystore – Redis | Date created: April 17, 2019 Last updated: April 19, 2019 Introduction Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) … | 2019/04/17 | Cloud | 2019-04-17 15:57:55 |
| Google Cloud Certified – Associate Cloud Engineer | Today I took the Associate Cloud Engineer exam and passed. The exam was medium difficult. … | 2019/03/22 | Certification | 2019-03-22 16:24:34 |
| Google Compute – Stackdriver Logging – Installation, Setup & Debugging | Date created: March 10, 2018 Last updated: September 12, 2019 Google Stackdriver is a very … | 2019/03/10 | Google | 2019-03-10 18:00:41 |
| Google Cloud – Compute Engine Service Accounts | Date created: March 1, 2019 Last updated: March 3, 2019 Note: This article is evolving … | 2019/03/02 | Google | 2019-03-02 15:12:11 |
| Google Cloud – The Master Series | Date created: February 27, 2019 Last updated: March 2, 2019 Introduction This month I completed … | 2019/02/27 | Google | 2019-02-27 17:56:59 |
| Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer Certification | Date created: February 10, 2019 Last updated: March 13, 2019 Update: March 13, 2019. I … | 2019/02/10 | Certification, Google | 2019-02-10 14:30:51 |
| Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification | Date created: January 30, 2019 Last updated: March 2, 2021 Exam Completed: February 15, 2019 … | 2019/01/30 | Certification, Cloud, Security | 2019-01-30 14:37:13 |
| Google OAuth 2.0 – Testing with Curl – Refresh Access Token | In my earlier article on how to test Google OAuth 2.0 flows from the command … | 2019/01/14 | Cloud, DevOps, Tools | 2019-01-14 23:02:18 |
| Google OAuth 2.0 – Testing with Curl – Version 2 | If you have ever wanted to test Google OAuth 2.0 flows from the command line, … | 2019/01/14 | Cloud, DevOps, Tools | 2019-01-14 19:48:02 |
| Google Cloud IAM – Listing Projects | This article shows how to display a list of Google Cloud Projects that you have … | 2019/01/13 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming | 2019-01-13 17:48:30 |
| Google Cloud IAM – Member Types | Google Cloud IAM supports several member types that can be authorized to access Google Cloud … | 2018/12/26 | Google | 2018-12-26 19:57:58 |
| Google Cloud – Creating OAuth Access Tokens for REST API Calls | The following example shows several important steps to call Google Cloud APIs without using an … | 2018/12/25 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Security | 2018-12-25 20:25:41 |
| Google Cloud – Converting Service Account Credentials from P12 to Json Format | I have written a number of articles about Google Cloud Credentials. For Service Account credentials, … | 2018/12/22 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Security, Tools | 2018-12-22 22:17:14 |
| Google Cloud – Extracting Private Key from Service Account P12 Credentials | Google Service Account Credentials are available in two file formats: Json and P12. P12 is … | 2018/12/22 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Security, Tools | 2018-12-22 18:51:55 |
| Google Cloud – Recovering from UFW firewall lockout – Debian | Introduction You have a Debian instance running in Google Cloud Compute Engine. You connect to … | 2018/12/22 | Debian, Google | 2018-12-22 00:27:29 |
| Google Cloud – Creating Access Tokens from Service Account P12 Credentials | Google Service Account Credentials are available in two file formats: Json and P12. P12 is … | 2018/12/21 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Security, Tools | 2018-12-21 19:29:20 |
| Google Cloud Stackdriver – IP Addresses | I have worked with Google Cloud Stackdriver for about three months. The more I learn … | 2018/12/19 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Tools | 2018-12-19 02:22:28 |
| Google Cloud Application Default Credentials – Python | Application Default Credentials Google Cloud Application Default Credentials (ADC) are not credentials. ADC is a … | 2018/12/04 | Google | 2018-12-04 21:30:33 |
| Google OAuth 2.0 – Testing with Curl | Introduction If you have ever wanted to test Google OAuth 2.0 flows from the command-line, … | 2018/11/17 | Cloud, DevOps, Tools | 2018-11-17 19:52:06 |
| Google Cloud – Creating and Authorizing Service Account Credentials with the CLI | This article is written for Windows, but the same principles apply to Linux and Mac. … | 2018/11/04 | Cloud, DevOps, Security, Tools | 2018-11-04 16:05:07 |
| Google Cloud – Where are my credentials stored | Google Cloud stores your credentials in a database on your system. These credentials can then … | 2018/11/02 | Cloud, DevOps, Programming, Security, Tools | 2018-11-02 15:01:59 |
| Google Cloud – Setting up Gcloud with Service Account Credentials | In this article we will download and install the Google gcloud CLI. Then we will … | 2018/11/02 | Cloud, DevOps, Tools | 2018-11-02 00:02:14 |
| Google Cloud – Understanding Gcloud Configurations | This article is written for Windows, but the same principles apply to Linux and Mac. … | 2018/11/01 | Cloud, DevOps, Tools | 2018-11-01 16:52:34 |
| Google Cloud Private DNS Zones | On October 23, 2018, Google introduced private DNS zones for Google Cloud DNS. This is … | 2018/10/29 | Cloud, DevOps | 2018-10-29 14:20:25 |
| Google Cloud Billing Catalog API | Google Cloud supports a Cloud Billing Catalog API. I have not worked with this API … | 2018/10/28 | Cloud, Programming | 2018-10-28 01:25:16 |
| Google Cloud – Debian 9 – Resize Root File System | In Google Cloud I often use Debian 9 Stretch for my test instances. Today I … | 2018/10/27 | Debian, Google | 2018-10-27 17:46:08 |
| Comparing AWS & Google – IP Packet Forwarding | When you configure an instance that will forward packets, you need to change an option. … | 2018/10/27 | Cloud | 2018-10-27 00:46:24 |
| Let’s Encrypt – Debian 9 on Google Compute Instance | Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority (CA) that issues free SSL certifications. I have used … | 2018/10/26 | Cloud, Debian | 2018-10-26 19:05:55 |
| Windows Command Prompt – Loading a File into a Variable | Often I need to load the content of a file into a Windows Command Prompt … | 2018/10/26 | Programming | 2018-10-26 15:08:21 |
| Google Compute – Install Stackdriver | Date created: October 26, 2018 Last updated: March 10, 2019 Note: I have written a … | 2018/10/26 | Cloud | 2018-10-26 00:15:57 |
| Google Compute – Startup Script Total Execution Time | I have been testing Google Compute VM instances with custom startup scripts. I wanted to … | 2018/10/25 | Cloud, Debian | 2018-10-25 23:57:18 |
| Understanding Google Cloud Storage Scopes | Google Cloud Storage uses scopes to determine what permissions an identity has on a specified … | 2018/10/22 | Cloud, Programming | 2018-10-22 01:36:37 |
| CURL SSL Certificate Problem | Part 1 – The CURL command-line program If curl is not setup correctly for SSL … | 2018/10/22 | Security, Tools | 2018-10-22 00:58:15 |
| Hello Cloud World! | October 13, 2018. Welcome to my new blogging site where I will publish my articles … | 2018/10/13 | Cloud | 2018-10-13 16:59:46 |