It all begins with data
Private GCS via Internal Load Balancers: No Client Auth Required
External Application Load Balancers can authenticate to a private Cloud Storage bucket. Internal ones can't. In this post you'll learn how to use traffic extensions with custom code on Cloud Run to create it yourself.
Building Serverless Rclone Data Transfers to Google Cloud Storage
Learn how to automate data transfers between external servers and GCS using rclone without managing VMs. This guide explores serverless architecture using Cloud Run jobs for simple syncs and Batch for high-throughput needs.
Moving GCS Buckets with Bucket Relocation
Move Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Buckets between storage locations the easy way with the built-in bucket relocate feature.
Using AWS S3 Tools with Google Cloud Storage: Critical Update
AWS's recent changes to defaults in their S3 tools broke GCS compatibility. This post shows you the fix.
Faster and Cheaper? Google Cloud's N2 vs C4
Discover the performance and cost gains of C4 VMs over older generations. I showcase this with demos using a MySQL database and compiling the Chromium web browser.
Restricting GCS buckets by IP address
Enhance the security of your GCS buckets by implementing IP-based access control for Internet and VPC Network clients using Bucket IP filtering.
Building a shared GFS2 filesystem with Hyperdisk Balanced HA multi-writer
Achieve cross-zone resilience and high performance for your applications with Google Cloud's Hyperdisk Balanced HA Multi-writer. This blog demonstrates how to build a GFS2 shared-disk filesystem with Ubuntu across two zones, ensuring data availability even during zone failures.
High throughput file transfers with Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
8 GiB/s transfers to Google Cloud Storage? With a big enough VM sure thing! Learn how to parallelize your transfers using Composite and Multipart Uploads, and Range Read Downloads, to move data fast.
Read-only persistent disks on Google Cloud
Did you know that a Google Cloud Persistent Disk (PD) can be read-only attached to up to 10 instances with full performance and at no extra cost? Check the blog for the ins and outs of using PD read-only attachments with Linux VMs, GKE, and Windows Server.
Step-by-step tutorial: SMB file storage using Google Cloud NetApp Volumes
Google Cloud NetApp Volumes is the easy way to deliver SMB file services in Google Cloud. In this step-by-step tutorial you'll go from zero to SMB share delivered!
