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GCP: Cloud Function to handle requests to HTTPS LB during maintenance


Categories: Hyperscaler

At some point you may need to schedule a maintenance window for your solution  But that doesn’t mean the end-user traffic or client integrations will stop requesting the services from the GCP external HTTPS LB that fronts all client requests. The VM instances and GKE clusters that normally respond to requests may not be able … GCP: Cloud Function to handle requests to HTTPS LB during maintenance

GCP: Deploying a 2nd gen Python Cloud Function and exposing from an HTTPS LB


Categories: Hyperscaler

GCP Cloud Functions have taken a step forward with the 2nd generation release.  One of the biggest architectural differences is that now multiple request can run concurrently on a single instance, enabling large traffic loads. In this article, I will show you how to deploy a simple Python Flask web server as a 2nd gen … GCP: Deploying a 2nd gen Python Cloud Function and exposing from an HTTPS LB