Terraform on Manuel Bernhardt

Cloud Run Job with arguments

Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:10:22 +0200

Cloud Run Jobs allows to run containers as jobs, i.e. as short-lived tasks that spin up a container every time that they’re invoked. As with every container you can use environment variables to pass context. But what if we want to pass arguments to the container?

In this case, the GCP API specifies containerOverrides. When using terraform, we can pass those with the google_cloud_scheduler_jobresource by customizing the http_target body like so:

On Azure

Thu, 16 May 2024 10:49:22 +0100

I’m working with a client ~~condemned to~~ graced with the privilege of using the Azure Cloud platform. Whilst I have years of experience working with AWS and GCP, my last exposure to Azure goes back to 2017. Memories from that time before Corona are faint, the world was a different place back then. But some things do not change.

On Managed Identities

…without having to manage any credentials? The sound of it is pleasant to the ears, and off we go taking this approach to setup an Azure Database for PosgreSQL - Flexible Server. The name is long, the process a bit involved, but in the end the identity is there, managed.

Migrating from Kubernetes to Google Cloud Run with terraform

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:14:12 +0100

Kubernetes has its advantages when you’re big enough and require the flexibility it offers. But when all you’re after is running services and you don’t need stateful sets, Google Cloud Run can be a good alternative (provided you’re using Google Cloud Platform). This article provides a few pointers to migrate Kubernetes deployments to Google Cloud Run.

Migrating YAML deployment descriptors

There’s a guide for migrating deployment descriptors which outlines the major syntax differences between a Kubernetes deployment and a Cloud Run service.