Terraform for dummies part 3: Launch a vm with a static website on Azure

Intro In this tutorial we will try provisioning a vm on azure using their terraform provider and reproduce the same deployment I have completed on AWS and Oracle Cloud.  As usual we wonโ€™t just deploy an instance but also configure an nginx website linked to its public IP. Iโ€™ll end this post with some notes …

Vagrant tips: How to automatically adjust the Time Zone of your vagrant box

Intro I was playing with my Linux vagrant boxes lately and I realized I was always spinning third party boxes that had a totally different time zone (Europe/UK mostly). Up until now I never bothered as I have used bunch of those from vagrant Cloud for years. I sometimes notice, and think of using a …

Google SDK (CLI for GCP) installation and few CLI examples

Intro Google as most of the cloud providers today, offers a simple Cloud shell solution with all required tools to connect to their platform securely using APIs. However, If you still want to have it in your laptop along with other development tools, you can always install Google Cloud SDK (especially if itโ€™s for educational …

GCP Short lab: launch an instance, Startup script & test logging via CloudShell

                                         Intro GCP Cloud Shell not only allows to execute and automate tasks around your Cloud resources, but It can help you understand what happens behind the scene when a vm is provisioned for example. Thatโ€™s also a good way to prepare for the GCP Cloud engineer certification. Although it normally takes a subscription to …

GCP Associate Cloud engineer certification takeaways

Intro I have been asked lately to share some prep tips after I passed the GCP Associate Cloud Engineer Certification.  Although there are tons of articles online describing the exam content and many resource materials to help prepare for the exam, I decided to share my thoughts around the preparation journey along with my feedback …