gcp-resume

Overview

To level up my knowledge of cloud and devops technologies, I am tackling Forrest Brazeal's GCP Resume Challenge. Based on the outline of the challenge, I will be developing skills in Google Cloud, Git, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), CI/CD (Github Actions), and APIs.

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Links

• Resume
  
• Repo
  
• Blog
  

Notes

• Visitor Counter
  • Javascript file that contains the frontend code to display the counter and add to the total count
  • Database for server-side storage of the total count
    • Using a Firestore noSQL database
  • API for frontend Javascript to communicate with backend Firestore database
    • API language: Python
    • main.py
      • Entry point for Cloud Function
    • count_visits.py
      • current_count function gets the number of current "documents" in the database and appends it as a value for the next added "document"
        • "document" = database entry

References

• Setting up GCP Workload Identity Federation through a Service Account
• Get number of "documents" in Firestore "collection"
• CORS in 100 Seconds
• Query latest decending entry in Firestore Database