Using Google Service Accounts in C#: Secure API Access Explained
When building applications that interact with Google Cloud services, authentication is the first challenge to solve. The most secure and…
Mastering Windows Updates & Microsoft Updates – Part 3 – Controlling Automatic Updates in On-Prem and Cloud Environments
Keeping Windows servers properly patched can feel deceptively simple, until you realize that automatic updates don’t behave the same everywhere….
Cross-Hub Connectivity in Google Cloud using HA VPN and NGFW Appliances
In multi-hub Google Cloud environments, teams often need full connectivity between workloads that sit behind different Network Connectivity Center (NCC)…
Deploying pfSense in Google Cloud – A Step-by-Step Guide to Your Own Cloud Firewall
Running pfSense in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a powerful way to build your own fully controllable network gateway, firewall,…
Building a Centralized Egress and Hybrid Connectivity Hub with Network Connectivity Center (NCC), HA VPN, and a Router Appliance in Google Cloud
In my previous posts I was configuring a hub-and-spoke architecture to support cross-VPC routing and hybrid connectivity. About setting up…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 9 (Outbound Internet Access)
If your VMs need general outbound internet (patching, repo downloads, external APIs), and you don’t want public IPs → Cloud…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 8 (Networking Best Practices)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides a powerful and flexible networking foundation that can scale from simple projects to complex, global…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 7 (Backup and DR)
In Part 6 we saw how to use the VM Manager in Google Cloud to orchestrate patching for our VM instances. Finally this is Google’s counterpart to Microsoft’s Azure Update Manager….
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 6 (Patching)
In Part 5 we take a look at some key networking tools that help you secure and troubleshoot our environment. Now in…
Mastering GCP Virtual Machines – Part 5 (Network Analyzing)
In Part 4 we saw how GCP will encrypt the virtual disks of virtual machine instances. Further we saw how to export a disk from Google Cloud…
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