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Cloud Resume Challenge – Summary, Learnings & Next Steps

9 November 202213 October 2022 by Chris

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

17 October 20224 October 2022 by Chris

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 5 – HTTPS

17 October 20228 September 2022 by Chris

The step of the challenge requires that the URL pointing to my resume should use HTTPS for security. I should do this via Cloud Load Balancer, and ensure that the site uses Cloud CDN for caching purposes. There are a few terms to unpack there, so let’s take them one at a time: HTTPS – … Read more

Cloud Resume Challenge Step 4 – Static Website

17 October 20227 September 2022 by Chris

In this step of the challenge, I’m required to host the newly minted resume online, specifically by using Google Cloud Storage. Cloud Storage doesn’t keep data in a file & folder hierarchy (ie file storage), or as chunks on a disk (block storage.) Rather, data is stored as objects in a packaged format, whereby the … Read more