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In episode 8 we talked about how to get started with Kubernetes, and this time we cover the next steps: How to set up ingress and east-west networking, options for restricting access, and the best ways to integrate with your favourite cloud provider.
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We talk about infrastructure as code, what it is, what it isn’t, how it differs from configuration management, how to structure it, best practices to stay consistent between Dev/Test and Production, avoiding configuration drift, and some experiences trying to do infrastructure/configuration as code in a home lab.
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How best to get started with Kubernetes and whether it is better to start with a low-touch option like MicroK8s/K3s, using a cloud-managed Kubernetes from the outset, or set up everything yourself “the hard way”
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We get personal and explain our home IT setups, sharing tips on learning new technologies like networking and Kubernetes while keeping the family TV working, and consult on how to secure the root user of your cloud account.
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Google Cloud teaches us about eggs and baskets by losing a big customer’s data, and Microsoft’s carbon emissions are up significantly – probably because of AI. Plus compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.
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Google Cloud accidentally deletes UniSuper’s online account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’
“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups
Details of Google Cloud GCVE incident
Microsoft’s carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
Costs to inference ChatGPT exceed the training costs on a weekly basis
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We were asked about compliance and best practices for hardening instances, web apps, and storage.
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We look at OpenShift from an external perspective, including how it works in a multi-cloud environment, how it abstracts cloud resources, when administrators and developers still need to understand what is happening beneath the abstraction, combining OpenShift with cloud-managed services, some of the downsides of OpenShift, and where people should start if they want to learn.
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Why AWS changed its policy on charging for HTTP errors on S3 buckets, how Bluesky dealt with an explosion in popularity by moving to on-prem, IBM buys Hashicorp, and our thoughts on cloud governance.
News/discussion
How an empty S3 bucket can make your AWS bill explode
Amazon S3 will no longer charge for several HTTP error codes
Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)
HashiCorp joins IBM to accelerate multi-cloud automation
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What “hybrid cloud” actually means to us. Where it works well, where it creates challenges, where the control plane should live, how to abstract differences between platforms to make workloads more suitable to be used in a hybrid setup, maintaining compliance across clouds, and guarding against security vulnerabilities in containerised dependencies.
Ubuntu Explained: How to ensure security and stability in cloud instances—part 1
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Redis is forked by cloud companies, how to manage modern cloud identity and access management, vendor lock-in for government cloud contracts, and cloud security best practices in the light of the xz vulnerability.
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News/discussion
Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Cloud vendor lock-in is shocking, but there’s a way out
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There’s a new show in the Late Night Linux Family! Industry professionals Aaron, Gary, Sean, and Shane talk about public cloud, private cloud, and everything in between.
In this first episode: the big three public cloud providers have dropped egress fees, four years of lessons and regrets from running a startup, and avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.
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Cloud switching just got easier: Removing data transfer fees when moving off Google Cloud
Free data transfer out to internet when moving out of AWS
Free data transfer out to internet when leaving Azure
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We were asked about avoiding surprise fees when learning cloud technologies with free tiers.
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