Tag: gcp
TIL: Stop storing credentials in plaintext part #624: gspread edition August 18th, 2023
Here’s how to safely store and use credentials for the Python gspread library, a Python API for Google Sheets. Background: How To Keep A Secret, by Glyph The most relevant parts start around 15:00, but watch the whole thing, it’s great and worth your time. Pre-requisites Install keyring: pip install keyring or equivalent. Storing credentials Create service account credentials as explained in the gspread docs. This ends with you having a JSON credentials file on your disk somewhere (unacceptable).…
📣 Now on Google Cloud Run January 5th, 2020
A quick announcement: as a bit of an experiment, I’ve moved this site to Google Cloud Run. Please let me know if anything seems broken. I may in the future write a bit about Cloud Run: there’s a lot to like, and also some definite here-be-dragons things. In the meantime, though, my capsule review: Here's my capsule review of Cloud Run / Cloud SQL / Cloud Build, from a Heroku stan: 👍🏻 native Docker, no weirdness 👍🏻 don't pay for idle time!…