Intro to the GCP project

So I have been working on a GCP project for a big customer where I live, and part of the work involved migrating instances from their other cloud platform to GCP. The migration that I was doing supposed to be simple. We call it lift and shift.

The concept is we take the instance as it is with all of its data and configuration and replicate it to GCP. This is a simple process.. Or that’s how we all though!

We used CloudEndure for this work and the whole process was easy and straight forward. Once the machines were ready for testing I started them up and asked the customer to login to them and test and confirm if things are good.

Problems begin!

The customer called and said they cannot access the machines and there is an issue with the authentication and AD settings… … Read the rest “GCP – Change Windows instance DNS using a startup script”