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May 28, 20223 min read47 views
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) : Part-3: Containers
Background This blog is a part of a mini-series for preparing for the CKA exam. This blog would focus on the concepts related to Containers. How to read through the various blogs in this mini-series Please feel free to go through all blogs (or) a pa...
May 28, 20224 min read36 views
Setup local Spark Cluster on Mac and explore UI for Master, Workers, and Jobs(Python using Jupyter notebook)
What is covered In this blog, I would describe my experiments about setting up a local (standalone) Spark cluster on Mac M1 machine. Would start jupyter notebook using anaconda navigator Submit jobs using Python code executing in the notebook with ...
May 19, 20223 min read92 views
Setup local Spark Cluster on Mac and explore UI for Master, Workers, and Jobs(pyspark)
What is covered In this blog, I would describe my experiments about setting up a local (standalone) Spark cluster on Mac M1 machine. Would start pyspark with an option to use the master setup in above step. Explore the UI for: Master Worker Jobs (t...
May 19, 20224 min read39 views
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) : Part-2: Storage
Background This blog is a part of a mini-series for preparing for the CKA exam. This blog would focus on the concepts related to storage. How to read through the various blogs in this mini-series Please feel free to go through all blogs (or) a parti...
May 9, 20223 min read72 views
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) : Part-1 : Tips
Background I recently passed CKA exam and that of capturing some notes that could help with exam preparation. I am planning to create an 8-part series to help with quick review of concepts needed for CKA. It should also help as a quick review of K8s....
May 9, 20223 min read51 views
What happens when certification expires - GCP, CKA, AWS
Background There are a lot of articles about passing certification, however, there may be few things to be aware when the all cherished certification expires. A certification may be close to expiring, since You may be busy or it may not be the primar...
Apr 30, 20221 min read6 views
Add Cloud Identity Free to Google Workspace
Background As described in a previous post, I have signed upfor Google Workspace to create - GCP projects belonging to an "Organization". I have subsequently cancelled the Workspace trial and hence, am not able to add more than a total of 2 users I ...
Apr 30, 20222 min read34 views
GCP Shared VPC and why I needed to buy a domain
Why Most people would probably buy a domain to host a website, but the reason I bought it is to create a Shared VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) in GCP. Google Cloud has a generous limit for $300 for a free trial, but since I signed up with my personal g...
Apr 10, 20223 min read53 views
gcloud list command example for a quick reference to the options
Background To quickly check on the resources deployed in Google Cloud environment, we could use list command in gcloud CLI with various options. In this article we would go through one command with a possible varaiations of common options. What ...