Published in Google Cloud - Community·Nov 4Workflows tips’n tricksHere are some general tips and tricks that we found useful as we used Workflows: Avoid hard-coding URLs Since Workflows is all about calling APIs and service URLs, it’s important to have some clean way to handle those URLs. You can hard-code them in your workflow definition, but the problem…Google Cloud Platform5 min readGoogle Cloud Platform5 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Oct 24Building and deploying Java 17 apps on Cloud Run with cloud native buildpacks on TemurinIn this article, let’s revisit the topic of deploying Java apps on Cloud Run. In particular, I’ll deploy a Micronaut app, written with Java 17 (Adoptium’s Temurin), and built with Gradle. With a custom Dockerfile On Cloud Run, you deploy containerised applications, so you have to decide the way you…Micronaut3 min readMicronaut3 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Sep 27A Cloud Run service in Go calling a Workflows callback endpointIt’s all Richard Seroter ‘s fault, I ended up dabbling with Golang! We were chatting about a use case using Google Cloud Workflows and a Cloud Run service implemented in Go. So it was the occasion to play a bit with Go. …Gcp Workflows4 min readGcp Workflows4 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Sep 12Monitoring website changes with Workflows, Cloud Functions and SendGridEvery year in France, around mid-September, there’s a special weekend where everyone can visit some famous places, usually closed the rest of the year. That’s “ Journée du Patrimoine “. For example, you can visit places like the Elysée Palace or the Matignon Palace , if you want to see…Gcp Workflows5 min readGcp Workflows5 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Feb 9Workflows Tip #20: Schedule a workflow executionThere are different ways to launch the execution of a workflow. In previous articles, we mentioned that you can use the gcloud command-line tool to create an execution, you can also use the various client libraries to invoke Workflows, or use the REST API . …Gcp Workflows2 min readGcp Workflows2 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Feb 4Workflows tip #19: Using Workflows’ Secret Manager connector to call an authenticated serviceWorkflows allows you to call APIs, whether from or hosted on Google Cloud, or any external API in the wild. A few days ago, for example, we saw an example on how to use the SendGrid API to send emails from a workflow. However, in that article, I had the…Workflow2 min readWorkflow2 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Feb 3Tip #18: Load and use JSON data in your workflow from GCSFollowing up the article on writing and reading JSON files in cloud storage buckets, we saw that we could access the data of the JSON file, and use it in our workflow. Let’s have a look at a concrete use of this. Today, we’ll take advantage of this mechanism to…Workflow2 min readWorkflow2 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Feb 1Day #17 with Workflows: Sending an email with SendGridFor notification purposes, especially in an asynchronous way, email is a great solution. I wanted to add an email notification step in Google Cloud Workflows . Since GCP doesn’t have an email service, I looked at the various email services available in the cloud: SendGrid, Mailgun, Mailjet, and even ran…Workflow2 min readWorkflow2 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Jan 31Day #16 with Workflows: Reading in and writing a JSON file to a storage bucket from a workflowWorkflows provides several connectors for interacting with various Google Cloud APIs and services. In the past, I’ve used for example the Document AI connector to parse documents like expense receipts, or the Secret Manager connector to store and access secrets like passwords. …Serverless2 min readServerless2 min read
Published in Google Cloud - Community·Jan 31How to get the project ID in a Java Cloud Function?As I was working with my colleague Sara Ford on testing the Cloud Functions runtimes for the upcoming “second generation” of the product, rebased on the Cloud Run platform, I wrote a few simple functions for the Java runtime. In one of those Java functions, I wanted to use Google…Java3 min readJava3 min read
