At first look, the observability services don’t appear to be the most critical topic. It is possible to run workloads without monitoring them. But soon, after you start deploying services at scale, you will look for a monitoring service to optimize or plan the usage of Google Cloud resources. You will want to investigate logs…
Create an ACA instance – MS AZ-104 Exam Guide
Create an ACA instanceYou can use any of the available tools to deploy an ACA instance, including the Azure portal, PowerShell, CLI, ARM Templates, and Bicep files. To create an ACA instance using the Azure portal, follow these steps: FIGURE 3-50 Create Container App blade FIGURE 3-51 Create Container Apps Environment FIGURE 3-52 Workload profile…
Interacting with data services using API calls
Google Cloud offers comprehensive documentation about the usage of its APIs. We recommend several valid URLs that you should visit if you want to dive deeper:• https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/overview: General overview of the cloud APIs concept• https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer: A tool that lets you try out Google API methods without having to write any code• https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/getting-started: A getting started…
Postman configuration – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
“Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API life cycle and streamlines collaboration so that you can create better APIs – faster”.This quote is from https://www.postman.com/product/what-is-postman/.Postman can be used on any modern operating system – Windows, Linux, or macOS. To download it, go to https://www.postman.com/downloads/postman-agent/. If…
Provision a container using Azure Container Instances
Provision a container using Azure Container Instances Azure Container Instances (ACI) provides a way to deploy isolated containers quickly and simply without worrying about backend infrastructure. It is widely used to spin up containers quickly for activities such as task automation, build jobs, and so on. There are multiple ways to create ACI. You can…
Using Google Cloud APIs-2 – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
Figure 10.15 – The CREATE CREDENTIALS button and the possible choices Figure 10.16 – Selecting an OAuth client ID application type Figure 10.17 – Authorized redirect URIs to work with Postman Figure 10.18 – OAuth client created To work with API calls, it is essential to understand which API calls we can make and what…
Create an Azure container registry
Create an Azure container registry You can use any of the available tools to deploy an ACR instance: the Azure portal, CLI, PowerShell, or REST API. You can also automate the deployment by using ARM templates or Bicep files. To create an instance from the Azure portal, follow these steps: ■ Subscription The Azure subscription…
Using Google Cloud APIs-1
API stands for application programming interface, a set of definitions and protocols for building and integrating applications. Google Cloud APIs are programmatic interfaces that interact with Google Cloud services. In Chapter 3, we learned how to enable and disable Google Cloud APIs with the gcloud command-line interface. In this part of this chapter, we would…
Dataproc – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
It is one of the everyday use cases in data science and data engineering to read data from one storage platform, transform it, and use it elsewhere. Our Dataproc example will be based on a data processing pipeline that uses Apache Spark (Python API) with Dataproc (PySpark). We will run a sample pipeline to read…
Dataflow – Google Cloud Engineer Exam Guide
Dataflow is a fully managed service that allows data modifications and enhancements in batch and stream modes. It provides automated provisioning and management of compute resources. Dataflow allows you to use Apache Beam, an open source unified model for defining batch and streaming data processing pipelines. You can use the Apache Beam programming model and…