The Need for Distributed Locks When you run into situations where you want to prevent two pieces of code ‒ possibly running on differen machines ‒ from running concurrently, you need a distributed lock. An easy solution to implement such a lock is to leverage a cloud storage service like Google Cloud Storage (GCS) or Amazon S3. Here you can find the full code example implementing this kind of lock....
Introduction When you deploy applications you might want to protect them behind a login. If you’re deploying multiple applications it might not be feasible to add authentication for each deployment separately. Here I’ll show how to set up a load balancer with nginx and oauth2proxy using Keycloak to secure any app. Run the example You can find a working example of running a load balancer with authentication in this repository. You can use docker compose to run the example:...
Introduction In a corporate setting sooner or later you will want to host your in-house Python packages on a private artifact store. We are using Poetry for our package management and using Google Cloud as our cloud provider, therefore Artifact Registry is our store of choice. However the combination of Poetry with Artifact Registry is not well documented, so I hope this post helps. Creating a private package repository on GCP itself is straightforward and I assume you already have created one....