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How to Deploy Static Site to GCP CDN with GitHub Actions

Building and deploying static sites is rarely an issue these days. Most of the PaaS providers already have full support for your live and your preview environments and a clean integration with your favorite Git provider.

However, some organizations may choose to stick with big players like GCP for various reasons.

In this blog post, you will learn how to build your frontend and deploy your static files to GCP bucket using GitHub Actions and serve it behind GCP CDN.

In this approach we will employ OpenID Connect to authenticate GitHub Actions runner to GCP API to avoid passing hard-coded credentials (Actually, GCP calls this Federated Workload Identity but it is unsurprisingly based on OIDC).

If this sounds interesting to you, let's not keep you waiting any longer.

Ory Kratos: Headless Authentication, Identity and User Management

Authentication flows are quite common in the modern day software development. What we want from one authentication has a lot of overlapping funcionality with what our other applications need. Even across different industries, you can still see the same patterns apply when it comes to Identity and User Management.

Ory Kratos solves all that user management under one umbrella of identity server, providing a clean headless API that you can ship your own UI with. It empowers you to customize the frontend, while preserving the ever-common backend that is backed by the robust SQL database.

In this blog post, we will cover the introduction and basics of Ory Kratos, as well as the steps and guides to write your integration client.

If you've always wanted to stop reinventing the wheel, reduce code duplication and to follow security best practices, then Ory Kratos and this blog post is for you!

cert-manager: All-in-One Kubernetes TLS Certificate Manager

Kubernetes is a great orchestration tool for managing your applications and all its dependencies. However, it comes with an extensible architecture and with an unopinionated approach to many of the day-to-day operational tasks.

One of these tasks is the management of TLS certificates. This includes issuing as well as renewing certificates from a trusted Certificate Authority. This CA may be a public internet-facing application or an internal service that needs encrypted communication between parties.

In this post, we will introduce the industry de-facto tool of choice for managing certificates in Kubernetes: cert-manager. We will walk you through the installation of the operator, configuring the issuer(s), and receiving a TLS certificate as a Kubernetes Secret for the Ingress or Gateway of your application.

Finally, we will create the Gateway CRD and expose an application securely over HTTPS to the internet.

If that gets you excited, hop on and let's get started!