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How to secure your remote applications
I am writing this around the time where we are at the beginning of a global pandemic. Everyone is trying to figure out how to keep their business up and running during this challenging period. Most of the employers have mandated work from remote policy. One of the main challenges is how to connect to your applications remotely. Traditionally the answer is VPN. There are so many challenges wrt scalability, availability, and performance of these traditional VPN software.
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GPG in Simple Terms
When I first heard GPG it was little daunting. I haven’t used it exactly, even though I was familar with the concept. So, I decided to dig deeper and understand how to use it.
GnuPG (GPG) is an implementation of PGP
The simple idea is that you generate a key pair: secret or private key and a public key. You can provide your public key to anyone. They can then encrypt either a secret or file using your public key.
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Here is one way how I can help
This aricle is inspired by [Give and Take] (https://www.adamgrant.net/give-and-take) by [Adam Grant] (https://www.adamgrant.net/). I was wondering how can I help my friends and network. Searching a job is something stressful and we all have been through. Once my wife and I searched for a year and finally we moved to San Francisco.
So far its been a challenge for my network to know whether I can refer to a particular company.
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How to deploy a cloud run application using Gitlab CI/CD
In Google Cloud Next 2019, they introduced a new product called [Cloud Run] (https://cloud.google.com/run/). I’ve been using it from the EAP (Early Access Program) days. [As the name suggests, basically it runs your docker image. You might be familiar with other serverless products such as [Cloud Function] (https://cloud.google.com/functions/) or [lambda] (https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/) where you provide your source code instead of a docker image. In my opinion, Cloud Run is more flexible than functions.
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Part 2/2: How to set up HAProxy for an active-active postgres databases
Step 1: Setting up HAProxy I hope you gone through [Part1] (https://viggy28.dev/article/postgres-active-active-replication/) of this series. Perhaps, one thing you might have noticed is that I’ve to connect to the specific master database. In our case, since both the databases are running on docker, only the localhost port is different. (In a production environment, most likely you going to run the databases on a different host). The main reason for active-active replication is high availability.
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