GCP Platform Guide
Production GCP platform: Workload Identity Federation, Secret Manager, Cloud Run, GKE Autopilot, Cloud SQL, ArgoCD, and cost optimization.
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Part 1 of 8
GKE Workload Identity Federation: The Complete Guide (Direct Access and Legacy Modes, Tested on Autopilot 1.35)
Complete tested guide to Workload Identity Federation for GKE on Autopilot 1.35. Direct resource access, legacy GSA impersonation, Terraform, 5 real error fixes, and the IRSA…
23 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 2 of 8
Google Cloud Secret Manager: Complete Tutorial (2026)
Tested GCP Secret Manager guide covering pricing, IAM, versioning gotchas, rotation via Pub/Sub, regional secrets, CMEK traps, and a full External Secrets Operator integration on GKE…
21 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 3 of 8
Deploy to Google Cloud Run with Terraform (2026 Guide)
Tested Cloud Run guide: build with Cloud Build, push to Artifact Registry, deploy, canary with traffic splitting, Terraform version, VPC connectors, secrets integration, and real cost…
12 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 4 of 8
Deploy GKE Autopilot with Terraform: Production Setup (2026)
Tested GKE Autopilot setup with Terraform. VPC with Cloud NAT, private cluster, Workload Identity, HPA, the Autopilot resource mutation trap, and real cost breakdown.
13 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 5 of 8
Deploy Cloud SQL PostgreSQL with Terraform (2026 Guide)
Production Cloud SQL PostgreSQL 17 setup with Terraform. Private IP, IAM auth, backups, read replicas, Auth Proxy for GKE, and real cost breakdown.
12 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 6 of 8
Set Up GCP Workload Identity Federation for GitHub Actions (2026)
Tested guide to configuring GCP Workload Identity Federation for GitHub Actions without JSON service account keys. Pool, provider, attribute conditions, principalSet bindings, and the 5 errors…
18 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 7 of 8
Understand GCP Costs: 13 Hidden Billing Traps (2026)
Verified April 2026 guide to the thirteen GCP cost traps that burn real money: Cloud NAT, egress, snapshots, idle IPs, BigQuery on-demand, Cloud Logging, GKE management…
20 min read·Apr 2026
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Part 8 of 8
Use Vertex AI Gemini in Python: Streaming, Tools, Vision
Most Vertex AI Gemini tutorials on the open web were written before the SDK changed. They show from vertexai.generative_models import GenerativeModel, an API Google deprecated in…
18 min read·May 2026