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Using GCP Secret Manager With Container-Optimized OS VMs

Nov 10, 202411 min read

Using Google Cloud Platform Secret Manager service is a convenient way to store and manage secrets. It has many features like automatic rotation,...

Using GCP Secret Manager With Container-Optimized OS VMs

Fetch "directories" only from GCS with PHP

Oct 7, 20243 min read

My recent task was to search in bucket for objects located in selected "directories" using PHP. Directory list inside bucket is not constant. New...

Fetch "directories" only from GCS with PHP

Using GitHub secrets may break job outputs

Aug 18, 20242 min read

If you don't want to spend hours debugging GitHub CI jobs, avoid using job outputs that may contain secrets inside. Job outputs will not be passed to...

Using GitHub secrets may break job outputs

How to get multi-architecture manifest SHA256 for a Docker image?

Jul 22, 20243 min read

Sometimes you have to deal with multiple CPU architectures within your team. For example you have devs using macOS (arm64) and Linux (amd64). This may...

Cloud-init works differently with COS images in GCP

Apr 6, 20242 min read

Introduction When working with VMs you may come across cloud-init tool that could be used to provision your instances. It is a well documented tool...

Cloud-init works differently with COS images in GCP

Using make with docker compose to automate dev and CI tasks

Dec 12, 202314 min read

Introduction In today's fast-paced development environment, where multiple developers are collaborating on projects using different operating systems...

Using make with docker compose to automate dev and CI tasks