Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you. The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

Fish is described as a smart and user-friendly command shell. As you would expect it works on Linux and is super useful to get that optimized experience. The blog post covers installation on GCP Cloud Shell I would expect the installation process to be similar on any Linux based machine. If you want to use oh-my-bash, …

If you work at the command line with Git this ones for you! Most of my time is spent at the Linux command line. My tool of choice is always "oh-my-bash" as it just works across all my machines. However if you are using a Cloud Provider environment, you probably dont want to spend time setting up another …

Recently a colleague created a spreadsheet but was unaware of the power lurking underneath. Google Sheets include a very comprehensive toolset that can be used to extend functionality. Overview In this blog post learn how to access a Google Sheets document to extend functionality. To get started there are a couple of …

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Security Engineer Certification (June 2021) Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted Pre Exam Notes Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the safe side No …

Introduction Did you know the lovely providers of cloud have a free tier? Have you wanted to take advantage but not sure where to start? If you are not familiar with the Free Tier offerings it can be worth your time to take a look. Below are the main cloud providers you may have heard of: Google Cloud Free Tier AWS …

Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect Certification (Jan 2021) Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted Exam Knowledge Areas Pre Exam Notes Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the …

Introduction If you want to host a static site e.g. blog or website, there are plenty of great options available. One option is to host your content in a storage bucket. Another option is to use Firebase hosting. Recently I watched a couple of YouTube videos that walk through the process of setting up a site. Hosting …

Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer Certification (Jan 2021) Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted Exam Knowledge Areas Pre Exam Notes Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the …

Introduction The Hosting a static website blog post walks through the essentials of running a website from a Google Cloud Storage bucket. In general just remember that the bucket name needs to be globally unique. ProTip: prefix the bucket name with the Google project identifier e.g. myawesomeproject-bucket In this …