In the Art World where I hail from, especially in the drastically underfunded Art World, collaboration is a necessary practice. In smaller art spaces such as non-profit galleries and residency programs, would-be teams often blend together into one mass, where the boundaries of a person’s roles or skills are blurred together. Don’t know how to spackle a wall? Time to learn, ‘cause we need extra hands. Never mounted a photograph on acid-free paper? Get that measuring tape and razor out. Oh, and don’t forget, we’re all going to be planning events, managing artists, and taking care of the day-to-day paperwork together. Even the more office-based positions I’ve held in the Art World have been like this, to a large extent.

When I was tinkering with deploying a Caddy container as a Load Balancer for an application container on GCP, I tripped over a few basic things that I think are probably pretty common confusions when you’re just getting started. Most of the guides I found online didn’t really consider some of these things, so, after successfully deploying this for myself, I figured I would write a quick-‘n-easy guide about this in the hopes to help anyone else who’s having trouble with this.