Hybrid Cloud Show

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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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.

Plugs

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Shane’s platform engineering newsletter

News/discussion

Redis Adopts Dual Source-Available Licensing

Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork

Why AWS Supports Valkey

OpenTofu not being good fork

IAM Is The Worst

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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News/discussion

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

(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup

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