To enable Config Connector in the existing GKE cluster, we must enable the Config Connector add-on, enable Workload Identity, and create an Workload Identity: After enabling the Config Connector add-on and Workload Identity in an existing GKE cluster, we can proceed with IAM resources creation.Config Connector creates and manages Google Cloud resources by using an…
AWS Backup – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
AWS Backup AWS Backup is a service that helps you safeguard your important data stored in the AWS Cloud. AWS Backup simplifies the process of backing up and recovering your information, so you don’t have to worry about losing files, databases, or other data. With AWS Backup, you can centrally manage backups across various AWS…
Other Storage Services – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Other Storage Services While the AWS services S3, EBS, and EFS can be considered the foundation of storage in the AWS Cloud, there are plenty of other storage services that might be critical for your organization. In this section, we will examine three of them: FSx, AWS Storage Gateway, and AWS Backup. FSx AWS FSx…
Infrastructure as Code – Google Exams Guide
IaC is a new way to deploy and manage infrastructure. It doesn’t only apply to cloud resources but to on-premises resources – for example, VMware vSphere. However, this book and this chapter will focus on IaC deployment in Google Cloud. We briefly mentioned IaC in Chapter 2, where we discussed various ways of deploying resources…
Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Elastic Block Store (EBS) When you spin up a virtual machine in the EC2 service of AWS, that machine is going to need a boot volume in order to function. AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage volumes for use with EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Each Amazon EBS volume is automatically…
S3 Storage Classes – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
S3 Storage Classes While initially S3 did not offer many different storage classes, times have changed. Today, AWS offers many different classes to permit you to save on costs while providing the required levels of durability. At this writing, the following storage classes are available in AWS S3: S3 Standard: This is the default storage…
Google Cloud Functions example
Now that you’ve learned what Cloud Functions is, I’d like to show you how to implement a sample Cloud Function. We will guide you through optical character recognition (OCR) on Google Cloud Platform with Cloud Functions. Our use case is as follows: We need to download the samples first; we will use Golang as the…
Fundamental Storage Services
Fundamental Storage Services Companies today are creating massive amounts of data that needs to be stored. They are turning to block-based, file-based, and object-based storage solutions to try to keep up with their storage demands. AWS wants to be of assistance and offers many different cloud-based storage solutions covering the gamut of storage technologies. In…
Other Network Services – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Other Network Services While there are many other network services in AWS, two of the ones you need to be familiar with are discussed in this section: Route 53 and CloudFront. Each performs critical functions that you need to understand. Route 53 Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System…
Fundamental Network Services
Fundamental Network Services It is pretty amazing when you think about just how much “networking” AWS is responsible for. If we take a recent estimate of the number of AWS customers, we are looking at about 1.5 million entities (at this writing). That number is amazing enough, but when we remember that each of these…