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Knative and Cloud Run implement the same APIs and the same principle: You…

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Function as a Service, or FaaS, has been a cornerstone in app development. Popularized by AWS Lambda service, all the major Cloud Providers offer their version, with different features. And they also extend this principle to containers, with Cloud Run on Google Cloud for example.

On Google Cloud, Cloud Functions…

The cloud cost is one of the most scary aspect: you pay for what you use! To prevent any overcost, one of best practices is to estimate roughly the cost of a project and to set a budget alert on it.

On Google Cloud, you can achieve that on the…

The secrets are the ultimate piece to protect: password, API Keys, private keys, root certificates,… There are several types of secrets but all needs to be kept safe and private. On Google Cloud, Secret Manager service helps to achieve this by keeping the secrets encrypted and protected by IAM.

IAM secret protection

Out…

The cloud has many benefits and one of them is the innovation speed with the motto “Fail fast, iterate faster”. Indeed, the cloud providers propose tons of services to easily test and experiment, when the same would be expensive, or impossible, on premise environment.

• Create a cluster with Hadoop or…

I tried in Node (and I'm bad in Node) and I can propose you this piece of working code

const {WorkflowsClient} = require('@google-cloud/workflows');
const client = new WorkflowsClient();
const [workflows] = await client.listWorkflows({
    parent: client.locationPath("<PROJECT_ID>", "us-central1"),
});
for (const workflow of workflows) {
    console.info(`name: ${workflow.name}`);
}
const {ExecutionsClient} = require('@google-cloud/workflows');
const execclient = new ExecutionsClient();
const [resp] = await execclient.createExecution({
    parent: client.workflowPath("<PROJECT_ID>", "us-central1", "run-long-process"),
    execution: {
        argument: '{"wait":5}'
    }
});
console.info(`name: ${resp.name}`);