In this article, I’ll explain how to build OCI container images without using
Docker by building the layers and image manifests programmatically using the
go-containerregistry module. As an example, I’ll build a container image
by adding some static website content on top of the
nginx image and push it to a registry like
gcr.io using a Go program.
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I wrote an article on GCP blog announcing WebSockets, HTTP/2 and bi-directional
streaming support for Cloud Run.
I’ve published an article on the Google Cloud Blog about the leader election and
distributed consensus concepts, where they’re useful and why they are
non-trivial problems. The artice shows you how to implement your own distributed
lock easily by using Google Cloud Storage and the consistency guarantees it
provides.
After my previous
article
showing how to build a Google Cloud HTTPS Load Balancer step-by-step from ground
up, this time I’m announcing a new official GCP Terraform module that I’ve
developed to abstract this away from developers. This module works with Cloud
Run, Cloud Functions (GCF) and App Engine (GAE) services.
I’ve published an article titled “Serverless load balancing with Terraform: The
hard way” on the Google Cloud blog that details building an HTTPS load balancer
with automatic TLS certs for a Cloud Run service. In doing so, I’ve realized
this experience is fairly complicated, and started preparing a new Terraform
module to make this easier.
Two years ago I have developed
grpc_health_probe out of
a real necessity: there was no way to health check gRPC applications in an
idiomatic and standardized way on Kubernetes. Fast forward two years, the tool
has been downloaded over 1.8 million times and used internally at Google as well
as externally in many companies. It has raised awareness around gRPC’s builtin
health protocol. I wrote about it on Google Cloud blog.
I’ve published an article on the Google Cloud blog detailing how to write and
deploy custom middleware (such as
serverless-registry-proxy)
to customize the behavior of gcr.io for tasks like serving a public Docker
Registry on a custom domain name.
I’ve published a deep dive article on Google Cloud Blog about a new Cloud
Run feature we’ve been working that adds “graceful
termination” support to the serverless containers using the
SIGTERM
signal —just like Kubernetes does.