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Add Snapshot Schedules to Disks

How to add Snapshot Schedules to disks in Terraform. Add this to your existing VM.

resource "google_compute_disk_resource_policy_attachment" "hourly_attachment" {
  name = "hourly-snapshots"
  disk = google_compute_instance.test.name
  zone = "us-central1-c"
}
 
resource "google_compute_disk_resource_policy_attachment" "daily_attachment" {
  name = "daily-snapshots"
  disk = google_compute_instance.test.name
  zone = "us-central1-c"
}

GCP Backend Services Health Status

Here’s how to get health status of a GCP Load Balancer Backend Services.

For all load balancers except target pool.

gcloud compute backend-services get-health BACKEND_SERVICE_NAME \
--region us-central1 \
--project project-id

For target pool load balancers, use this command.

gcloud compute target-pools get-health TARGET_POOL_NAME \
--region us-central1 \
--project project-id

AWS RDS Enable Performance Insights

Here’s how to enable performance insights on a RDS instance.

Enable

aws rds modify-db-instance \
--db-instance-identifier sample-db-instance \
--enable-performance-insights \
--region us-east-1 \
--profile default

Disable

aws rds modify-db-instance \
--db-instance-identifier sample-db-instance \
--no-enable-performance-insights \
--region us-east-1 \
--profile default

GCP BMS List LUNS in Volume

Here’s how to list the luns for a particular volume.

gcloud bms volumes luns list --project project-id --region us-central1 --volume at-xxxxxxx-volxxx

GCP BMS Describe Instances

Here’s how to describe a Bare Metal Server (BMS). The output display storage LUNS and network information.

gcloud bms instances describe INSTANCE --project PROJECT-ID --region us-central1