loooong week

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been a particular long week this week. Spent most of the week in GCP cloud training which honestly was great training. I was just slightly bored out of my mind because most of it was a compute enginer architecture course. So it was high level and I was familiar with almost all of the material already as I had spent the previous three weeks learning by doing. As part of an infrastructure team, one of our responsibilities it to provide “blessed” golden images other teams can you to deploy from, so I had already built a deployment pipeline in GCP using a combination of cloud schedule, cloud build, buckets, and compute engine. I had previously written a tool I called packer builder. It was meant to allow more flexibility by building packer templates dynamically to allow for the EXACT same automation that builds an image on vsphere, to be used in AWS, or Azure, or (in this case) GCP. Without packer builder I would have a large library of individual packer templates with duplicated code that would require tons of work updating any time I made a change to the build automation. Long story short most of my work over the last month has been around optimizing packer builder for cloud deployments and building a GCP image from scratch. With most of that out of the way and a long weekend I finally have some time to get back to my personal projects. For this site, while I technically have it deployed; updates are not automated. I started working on the buildspec required by codebuild to package up my site contents and place it on a bucket. It’s pretty simplistic but lets go over it below:

Codebuild on Jason Curtis /Dev

loooong week