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Cloud Resume Challenge – Summary, Learnings & Next Steps

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For the past few weeks I’ve been working to complete the Cloud Resume Challenge. The challenge is intended for people (such as myself) who are looking to move into a more technical role in Cloud specifically, and have technical skills but not the most techie of CVs! The challenge outlines a number of technologies and … Read more

Cloud Resume Challenge – Step 12, Infrastructure As Code

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This next step in the project concerns Infrastructure As Code (IaC.) One of the great benefits of a virtualised and entirely remote platform such as GCP is that, since all the resources on which your infrastructure depends can be created and modified with individual commands, these commands can also be represented as code. This means … Read more

Cloud Resume Challenge Step 6 – DNS

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This step requires me to point a domain name to the load balancer endpoint that we created in the last step. The Domain Name Service (DNS) is the phonebook of the internet. It allows for person-friendly domain names to be translated, and traffic routed towards, the actual name of an online resource: its IP address. … Read more