Fabian Lee : Software Engineer

GCP: quota project error when invoking GCP API using ADC application-default

October 14, 2023
Categories: Hyperscaler

If you receive an error similar to below when calling the GCP API using ADC login credentials with either gcloud or terraform: Cannot add the project “myproj-i1wsbbn8pkfeq3jhkcg0z4” to ADC as the quota project because the account in ADC does not have the “serviceusage.services.use” permission on this project. You might receive a “quota_exceeded” or “API not … GCP: quota project error when invoking GCP API using ADC application-default

GCP: listing IAM roles for user, group, and service account in project and organization

October 18, 2022
Categories: Hyperscaler, Scripting

When GCP operations fail due to permissions issues, checking the IAM roles assigned to a user, group, or service account becomes a necessity. When hierarchical projects and organizations are involved it becomes even more complex. This article will show you how to use gcloud at the project and organization level to pull IAM policies for … GCP: listing IAM roles for user, group, and service account in project and organization

GCP: pulling an image from the Container Registry of another project

April 28, 2021
Categories: Containers

In a previous article I discussed the advantages to keeping container images in the private Google Container Registry of a project. And if you have a GKE cluster in the exact same project, then image pulls happen seamlessly without any additional configuration required. However, if the GKE cluster is in a different project than the … GCP: pulling an image from the Container Registry of another project

Linux: Using xfs project quotas to limit capacity within a subdirectory

January 13, 2020
Categories: Linux

XFS is a journaled filesystem that has excellent parallel performance, and is licensed under the GPL which means it has been included in many Linux distributions. One of the features of XFS is the ability to enforce quotas based on user, group, and project. In this article, I will show how to assign filesize quotas … Linux: Using xfs project quotas to limit capacity within a subdirectory

Git: Uploading an existing local project to GitHub from the console

February 4, 2018
Categories: Linux

Getting a local project into a public repository on GitHub only takes a few steps. This is well documented on a GitHub help page. In this article, I’ll go through getting a local project called “myproject1” into a public GitHub repository.