Practical Guides

This section provides step-by-step, practical guides for common tasks you will perform as a developer on the Infrastream platform. Each guide is designed to be a concise, task-oriented walkthrough, showing you exactly which manifest to edit and what fields to define.

If you are still deciding whether the platform fits, read the Use Cases first — the same journeys, written in plain language before the manifests.

While the Manifest Reference provides a complete dictionary of every available option (generated from the engine schema), and the Samples & Templates section offers ready-to-copy manifest sets, these guides focus on the most common real-world scenarios.

Core Tasks

• 1. Deploying a Containerized Application

  • Learn how to deploy a new containerized service to Cloud Run, Kubernetes, or a Compute Engine VM by creating an Application manifest (and its DeploymentConfig).

• 2. Provisioning a PostgreSQL Database

  • A step-by-step guide to creating a new, secure AlloyDB database and connecting your application to it.

• 3. Creating a Cloud Storage Bucket

  • Walkthrough for adding a secure, private Google Cloud Storage bucket to your project for storing files and data.

• 4. Managing Secrets and Configuration

  • Learn the secure way to create secrets in Secret Manager and inject them into your application's runtime environment, avoiding any hardcoded credentials.

Advanced Tasks

• 5. Migrating a Service from GKE to Cloud Run

  • This guide demonstrates the power of Infrastream's compute abstraction by showing how to migrate an existing service from Kubernetes to the serverless Cloud Run platform with a single line change, in order to optimize for costs.

• 6. Setting Up a Custom Domain Name

  • Learn how to attach a custom hostname to your application by creating a PublicIngress manifest and defining a routing rule.

• 7. Viewing Logs and Monitoring Dashboards

  • A guide on how to access the centralized logging and pre-configured monitoring dashboards for your applications and services.

• 8. Managing User Access and Permissions

  • Learn how to manage team members, grant project permissions, and implement least-privilege security using OrganizationUserGroup and AccessPermissions.

• 9. Disaster Recovery and Rollback

  • A guide on Infrastream's "Recovery as Code" approach, including rolling back to historical states and restoring databases from point-in-time snapshots.

• 19. Controlling Costs

  • How to stop paying for the hours nobody works: right-sizing with the estimate in front of you, and putting non-production projects on a hibernation schedule so they sleep overnight and at weekends without anyone remembering to switch them off.

Scenarios

• 10. Real-world Platform Scenarios
  • Deep-dive examples of complete platform setups, including financial services and trading platforms.