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Workflows patterns and best practices - Part 1

Posted on 22 November 2022

For the last couple of years, we’ve been using Workflows, Google Cloud’s service orchestrator, to bring order to our serverless microservices architectures. As we used and gained more experience with Workflows and service orchestration, we shared what he had learned in conference talks, blog posts, samples, and tutorials. Along the way, some common patterns and best practices emerged. To help you take better advantage of Workflows and service orchestration on Google Cloud, we’ve summarized these proven patterns and best practices in a three-part series of blog posts. Read More ↗︎

.NET 7 on Cloud Run

Posted on 11 November 2022

.NET 7 was released a few days ago with new features and performance improvements and it’s already supported on Cloud Run on Google Cloud! In this short blog post, I show you how to deploy a .NET 7 web app to Cloud Run. Create a .NET 7 web app First, make sure you’re on .NET 7: dotnet --version 7.0.100 Create a simple web app: dotnet new web -o helloworld-dotnet7 This creates the helloworld-dotnet7 folder with a project file. Read More →

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Executing commands (gcloud, kubectl) from Workflows

Posted on 17 October 2022

In a previous post, I showed how to manage the lifecycle of a virtual machine using Workflows and the Compute Engine connector. This works well when there’s a connector for the resource you’re trying to manage. When there is no connector, you can try to use the API of the resource from Workflows, if there’s one. Alternatively, you can also use my favorite command line tool to manage the resource: gcloud. Read More →

Workflows Serverless Google Cloud Platform How To

Workflows that pause and wait for human approvals from Google Sheets

Posted on 10 October 2022

I’ve been writing a series of posts to showcase Google Workspace and Google Cloud Workflows integration. In my first post, I showed an IT automation use case in which a Google Sheets spreadsheet triggers a workflow to create virtual machines in Google Cloud. In the second post, I showed how to feed a Google Sheets spreadsheet with data from BigQuery using a workflow. In this third and final post of the series, I show how to design a workflow that pauses and waits for human approvals from Google Sheets. Read More →

Workflows Serverless Google Sheets Google Cloud Platform How To

.NET 6 on Cloud Functions (2nd gen)

Posted on 3 October 2022

Back in August, we announced the 2nd generation of Cloud Functions with longer request processing times, larger instances, new event sources with Eventarc, and more. A few weeks ago, .NET 6 support (public preview) was silently added to Cloud Functions. Let’s see how to deploy some .NET 6 functions to Cloud Functions 2nd gen. Functions Framework for .NET Functions Framework for .NET is the easiest way to create .NET functions for consuming HTTP or CloudEvent requests. Read More →

Cloud Functions Serverless Google Cloud Platform How To

Writing to Google Sheets from Workflows

Posted on 26 September 2022

In my previous post, I showed how to trigger a workflow in Google Cloud from a Google Sheets spreadsheet using Apps Script. In this post, I show how to do the reverse: write to Google Sheets from a workflow in Google Cloud. Use case Imagine you have some dataset in BigQuery. Periodically, you want to query and extract a subset of the dataset and save it to a Google Sheets spreadsheet. Read More →

Workflows Serverless Google Sheets Google Cloud Platform How To

Multi-environment service orchestrations

Posted on 20 September 2022

In a previous post, I showed how to use a GitOps approach to manage the deployment lifecycle of a service orchestration. This approach makes it easy to deploy changes to a workflow in a staging environment, run tests against it, and gradually roll out these changes to the production environment. While GitOps helps to manage the deployment lifecycle, it’s not enough. Sometimes, you need to make changes to the workflow before deploying to different environments. Read More ↗︎

Workflows Serverless Google Cloud Platform How To

GitOps your service orchestrations

Posted on 16 September 2022

GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Nowadays, an application is not just code running on infrastructure that you own and operate. It is usually a set of first-party and third-party microservices working together in an event-driven architecture or with a central service orchestrator such as Workflows. Read More ↗︎

Workflows Serverless Google Cloud Platform How To

Triggering Workflows from Google Sheets

Posted on 9 September 2022

Is it possible to integrate Google Workspace tools such as Calendar, Sheets, and Forms with Workflows? For example, can you trigger a workflow from a Google Form or a Sheet? Turns out, this is not only possible but also easier than you might think. Let me show you how with a sample use case. Use case Imagine you are an administrator in charge of allocating virtual machines (VM) in your cloud infrastructure to users. Read More →

Workflows Serverless Google Cloud Platform How To

Route Datadog monitoring alerts to Google Cloud with Eventarc

Posted on 24 August 2022

A few weeks ago, we announced third-party event sources for Eventarc, with the first cohort of third-party providers by our ecosystem partners. This blog post describes how to listen for events from one of those third-party providers, Datadog, and route them to a service in Google Cloud via Eventarc. Datadog is a monitoring platform for cloud applications. It brings together end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs to make your applications and infrastructure observable. Read More ↗︎

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