What our cloud strategy would be if we were CTOs, how companies should weigh up SaaS, PaaS and IaaS, and trade off building vs buying.

Integrating the Ubuntu Snapshot Service into systems management and update tools

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We often talk about working with cloud technologies, but how do we have fun with them?

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How much Linux and traditional sysadmin knowledge do you need for a career in cloud computing?

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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”

Kubernetes 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.

News/discussion

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

McKinsey report.

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.

OpenShift

OKD

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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

Jeff Barr responds on Twitter

Update: S3 engineers are working to make unauthorized requests that customers did not initiate free of charge

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

IBM Press Release

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