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Terraform GCP Instance

Here’s a Terraform script for launching an instance in Google Cloud Platform.

provider "google" {
  project = "project-id"
  region  = "us-central1"
  zone    = "us-central1-a"
}
resource "google_compute_instance" "wiki" {
  name         = "wiki"
  machine_type = "n2-standard-1"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"
  tags         = ["web-server"]
  labels = {
    name        = "wiki"
    environment = "development"
  }
  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "centos-7-v20210122"
    }
  }
  network_interface {
    network = "default"
    access_config {
    }
  }
  service_account {
    email  = "service-account@email.com"
    scopes = ["cloud-platform"]
  }
}

Here’s a few Terraform commands.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply
terraform destroy

GCP Load Balancer Logging

Go to Logging > Logs Viewer to monitor a GCP Load Balancer.

resource.type="http_load_balancer" AND resource.labels.url_map_name="your-lb" AND resource.labels.project_id="your-project-id"

Google SDK Install on Debian or Ubuntu

Here’s the script.

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] \
  https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | \
  sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates
sudo curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | \
  sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

Feedburner HTTPS Feed

When Google acquired Feedburner a few years ago, we thought it would make Feedburner a better product. The opposite has happened. Google has basically shelved the Feedburner product. There hasn’t been any updates to Feedburner the last 5 years.

If you’ve recently updated your site from http to https, you may have noticed that https feeds are not supported. It looks like Google doesn’t plan on updating Feedburner anytime soon. If you want to replace Feedburner, take a look at couple of options. Try FeedBlitz or perhaps even Mailchimp.

In addition, you can import your current subscribers, and never miss a beat.

GCP Change Instance Type

Here’s how to change instance types via the command line

# Set Project
gcloud config set project your-project-id
 
# Change instance type to 2 CPU 20GB memory.
gcloud compute instances set-machine-type your-server-name \
--zone us-east1-a \
--machine-type n2-custom-2-20480
 
# Change instance type to original settings.
gcloud compute instances set-machine-type your-server-name \
--zone us-east1-a \
--machine-type n2-custom-2-15360