Google Cloud Platform

My first talk as a Google Developer Expert in Cloud: the Linux skills that matter most on GCP, delivered to a packed room at the Developers Conference 2026 in Mauritius.

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On Friday 17 April 2026, I delieverd a technical workshop at the African Leadership College of Higher Education (ALCHE) in Pamplemousses. The topic: taking a Python Flask application from a developer'...

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Deploy a Laravel application on Google Cloud Run with PHP 8.5, connect to Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, and scale to zero when idle. A practical guide covering containerization, deployment to the africa-south1 region, and tips for handling storage, sessions, and queues in a serverless environment.

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openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Google Cloud Platform with x86_64 and Arm64 images. You can launch a Compute Engine instance by selecting openSUSE Leap 16.0 under Public images. The Cloud Observability Ops Agent is not yet supported.

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Learn how to bring your AFRINIC-allocated IP addresses to Google Cloud Platform using BYOIP. This guide covers the process from ROA configuration to deploying addresses on Compute Engine, with practical insights for organizations in Mauritius and Africa using the South Africa (Johannesburg) region.

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Learn how to eliminate service account keys and implement keyless authentication for GitHub Actions using Google Cloud Workload Identity Federation with Cloud SQL.

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