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by vrosas 486 days ago
Cloud Tasks is one of the most undervalued tools in the GCP ecosystem, but mostly because PubSub gets all the attention. I've been using it since it was baked in the AppEngine and love it for 1-to-1 queues or delayed job handling.
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kamikaz1k 485 days ago
how do you recommend working with Cloud Tasks?

raw dogging gcloud? Terraform? or something more manageable?

I've been curious for one of my smaller projects, but I am worried about adopting more GCPisms.

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stickfigure 485 days ago
Back when I was all-in on GCP, I had a queue.yaml file which the appengine deployer syncs to cloud tasks (creates/disabled queues, changes the rate limits, concurrency, etc).

Now that I'm mostly on AWS... I still use the same system. I have a thin little project that deploys to GAE and has a queue.yaml file. It sets up the cloud tasks queues. They hit my EB endpoints just like they used to hit my GAE endpoints.

As a bonus, my thin little GAE app also has a cron.yaml that it proxies to my AWS app. Appengine's cron is also better than Amazon's overcomplicated eventbridge system.

It's great.

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vrosas 485 days ago
Terraform is definitely for the best. Any AI tool should be able to spit it out well enough, but if you do rawdog it in the console or gcloud you might be able to export the terraform with:

    gcloud beta resource-config bulk-export --resource-format=terraform
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