If you see the message 'Google Assistant is blocked on this device' when trying to use Google Assistant on your phone, it is most likely that your Gmail account is managed by G suite, and the 'web & App Activity' is set as off. Changing the settings to on should be able to fix it. … Continue reading Google Assistant is blocked on this device
Category: Cloud
Putting the K in GKE
Not sure if you have noticed Today that Google has renamed Container Engine to Kubernetes Engine. A quick search leads me to a article on Google Cloud blog - Google has been working with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and the Kubernetes community to create the Certified Kubernetes Conformance Program. The Certified Kubernetes program officially launched today, and … Continue reading Putting the K in GKE
CICD on OpenShift Part One
I have successfully migrated 'Dilbert' from EC2 instance to OpenShift. Dilbert is an automation bot that we use to offload some daily operations. In this article, I will show you how it works. In the Dilbert project, I have one build configuration. For each version, I only build once. This to ensure only one binary … Continue reading CICD on OpenShift Part One
Simple version of CICD Workflow
Above is my simple version of CICD workflow that I use as a guidance in day to day work. A bit explanations on how to use it. The workflow has six stages and seven scenarios. Six Stages: Commit Change: When user commit changes to code repository. Build Binary: When CI server builds the binary to … Continue reading Simple version of CICD Workflow
Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
I did a quick test of the HPA (Horizontal Pod Autoscaling) on OpenShift, here are some key findings: Heapster metric is not near realtime, it is about 2 minutes delay in my test. HPA only has one threshold to decide when to scale up or scale down. I think it makes sense, as pods normally … Continue reading Horizontal Pod Autoscaling



