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Jamie Thompson Google Cloud Advocate Blog

Preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect (PCA) certification

In this blog I cover Google Cloud’s Professional Cloud Architect certification and offer my advice and guidance on preparing to become a certified Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Posted on February 28, 2023

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Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Workload Identity

In this blog I provide an overview of how to securely access Google Cloud resources from your containerised workloads running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with Workload Identity, why this approach is the recommended method, how to configure Workload Identity with both gcloud commands and Terraform code, and call out some of the risks associated with the alternate methods accessing Google Cloud resources.

Posted on February 17, 2023

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Anthos Service Mesh Overview

In this blog I provide an overview of the Anthos Service Mesh product offering and architecture, describing how a service mesh helps secure and simplify microservice architectures.

Posted on January 17, 2023

Securing Microservices Anthos Service Mesh Anthos Service Mesh Offerings Anthos Service Mesh Deployment Options The Control Plane The Data Plane Network Security Observability Advanced Traffic Management Securing Microservices Monolithic applications with multiple functions have no issues communicating internally, but when these applications are modernised and migrate to a microservices architecture,... [Read More]
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Do you want to become a Google Cloud Digital Leader?

In this blog I cover Google Cloud’s Cloud Digital Leader certification, how you can access free training and offer my advice and guidance on preparing to become Google Cloud Digital Leader certified.

Posted on December 6, 2022

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Why Google Cloud?

Part 3: Open Source Offerings, Innovation, Support, Contributions, Kubernetes, and Anthos Multicloud

Posted on November 21, 2022

Welcome to my third blog in the series ‘Why Google Cloud’ where I discuss my reasons why I advocate Google Cloud. The first two blogs in the series focussed on security and sustainability. If you missed them, you can read them here: [Read More]
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- open source
- kubernetes
- GKE
- Istio
- Anthos
- multicloud
- vendor lock-in