This week I was recognized by Google Cloud as a 2022 Google Cloud Partners All-star in Solutions Engineering and Delivery! I am really excited and absolutely honoured that I am recognized for the awesome Google Cloud Security initatives and projects I worked on! Why I got awared? Jorge, on behalf of the Google Cloud Benelux team we want to say we think you’re a true Google Cloud champion! Especially in the way you have made a difference with highly strategic customers such as Mollie, by explaining how Google Cloud makes a difference in security.

Freelance Getting back to work for a boss (Xebia) Finding the Spark that Drives You Jorge Liauw Calo joined Xebia as a Google Cloud Security Engineer in February after freelancing for himself for four years. Here’s his take on the big changes becoming an Xebian brought to his life and what motivated him to make the leap. Making Connections Like everyone else in the world, I was ready to be around people again after spending two years at home during the pandemic.

On the 11th of November 2022 I was honourd to present onstage at Google Cloud Next 2022 Recap in Antwerpen, Belgium together with our friends from Google Cloud and Travix. During my presentation I talked about why Security is important in the Cloud. The security in the cloud and how to mitage or at least lower the risk around these security risks. I discussed the following Security challenges from a process and technical perspective:

Here comes some great content about what Traefik is and how you can use it to securely expose your services running in Docker to the web. Traefik is a Cloud Native Application Proxy just like NGINX. You might already know or work with NIGNX as a standalone webserver, although it’s also used a lot as a reverse proxy. They reason I switched to Traefik is because it does the heavy lifting when it comes to load balancing, routing and generating HTTPS certificates.

?TEXT? Last week I celebrated working one year at Xebia. Time flies when you’re having fun 😀 What better excuse to share some nice cake with other Xebians 🍰 Every day working with my favorite Cloud almost doesn’t feel like work 😉 Thank you all at Xebia Google Cloud Mollie and ASML for making this first year awesome with great collaborations and cool Google Cloud Security projects 🎉 Looking forward to what the future will bring!

This post will describe how to export and convert your Google Cloud Compute Engine (GCE) disks to a Vmware Disk (vmdk). Think about if you want run some Cloud workloads in a on-premise environment to lower the costs of your test (DTAP) environment. ... ... ... ... ... ... Export Compute Engine Disk and convert to VMware (vmdk) Create a Cloud Storage bucket Name: export-gce-disks gsutil URI gs://export-gce-disks gs://export-gce-disks https://storage.cloud.google.com/export-gce-disks/