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172: The Cloud Pod Masquerades With GKE Autopilot

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On The Cloud Pod this week, the team discusses data sovereignty for future space-customers. Plus: There’s a global cloud shortage, Google announces Apigee advanced API security, and GKE Autopilot gets new networking features.

A big thanks to this week’s sponsor, Foghorn Consulting, which provides full-stack cloud solutions with a focus on strategy, planning and execution for enterprises seeking to take advantage of the transformative capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

This week’s highlights
  • Microsoft is the latest victim in a global cloud shortage, spinning it as a temporary issue fueled by surging Teams demand and rapid Azure growth.
  • Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security in a bid to defend against increased attacks and traffic volumes.
  • GKE Autopilot gets new network features in the form of IP masquerading and eBPF, now generally available.

    • Top Quotes  

    • “The supply chain has been huge on a lot of people. You don’t hear so much from Amazon, and I don’t know if that’s related to the commerce site Amazon.com and the overprovisioning they did … If AWS went the same route and has a bunch of stock, cluster manufacturing their own chips, maybe they have a little bit more control. But everyone else is screwed.”
    • “In the article, it just says what you can do to detect bots. But some bots are the use case [you’re] selling to the world. … On the surface, it sounds logical, but there are some ‘gotchas’ that you need to be careful of if you’re doing B2B or doing things that look bot-ish.”
      • General News: All the Joy of the Crypto Crash
      • Apparently the tech talent crunch (not because we suck at running Kafka) is to blame for a 68% reliance on AWS managed services. Come on, VentureBeat, you can do better than this! 
      • Microsoft is in the yellow zone because of a global cloud shortage, which it’s attributing to rapid Azure growth and increased Teams demand.
        • GCP: The Very Apigee of Security
        • Google announces Apigee Advanced API Security to help protect against increased attacks and traffic volumes. Seems more like a WAF function than a misconfiguration issue, though.
        • Go go go, Google: get more support for structured logs in the latest version of Go logging library.
        • Monitor your cloud metrics now in Managed Service for Prometheus. Allegedly, Cloud Native community members have an 86% chance of using Prometheus (we’re not so sure about that number.)
        • Say bonjour to the new Paris region, as the French government aims to make the nation cloud native.
        • GKE Autopilot’s new IP masquerading and eBPF network features are now generally available.
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          tcp.fmBy Justin Brodley, Jonathan Baker, Ryan Lucas and Matt Kohn