Google Cloud infrastructure release notes: October 2026
A practical October 2026 Google Cloud roundup for infrastructure engineers: DNS, networking, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, storage, and Apigee.
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Practical notes on Linux, networking, and running systems in the cloud.
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GCP for Linux System administrators
As a Linux system administrator, you have a wealth of knowledge and experience that can be valuable in the cloud. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a powerful cloud computing platform that can…
Top 5 Troubleshooting Tools for Network Professionals in Linux
As a network professional, troubleshooting is a crucial part of your daily routine. To streamline this process, it's essential to have a toolkit of reliable tools at your disposal. Here are…
netstat equivalent tool
The net-tools set of packages had been deprecated years back, although the commands are still being in use. Tools such as netstat and ifconfig are part of the net-tools. The alternatives can…
GCP GKE - run kubectl through bastion host
Re-posting my answer to a Google cloud platform's Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) related question in Serverfault. The question is how do you run kubectl commands from a local development…
Spoof User Agent in http calls
Recently I was trying to download numerous files from a certain website using a shell script I wrote. With in the script, first I used wget to retrieve the files, but I kept on getting the…
Terraform - show logging
By default, a terraform plan or apply run only shows the resources to create, update or delete. It doesn't give much detail on the activity terraform is doing behind the scene. All the debug…
Format Google Cloud regions and zones with gcloud
List current Compute Engine regions and zones, filter the results, and format useful fields as readable tables with the Google Cloud CLI.
GCP - ssh to instances without external IP
Google recently announced that it will start charging fee for external IP addresses attached to VM instances. In addition to that, unless you have a need to expose your instances to the…
Google Cloud NEXT 2020
Archived announcement for Google Cloud Next 2020, with the event registration link and originally scheduled dates.