Tag: gke

  • Google Cloud Is Down

    Apparently Google was down the other day. Unfortunately, I was on a train in a really remote location and couldn’t verify what I picked up from Hacker News and tweeted.

    Meanwhile, there is a bit of broader coverage on Slashdot and The Verge, that hint at the size of the outage.

    Again, an outage like this reminds of the issues that remain with the Cloud, the difference to traditional infrastructure is merely scale at which an outage hits.

    Source: Google Cloud Is Down | Hacker News

  • GCP can run untrusted workloads

    Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE) now supports node pools that are wrapped in gVisor to allow running untrusted workloads. The idea behind gVisors is to emulate all system calls in user space and provide a sandbox to processes that cannot be trusted. GKE allows to enable this with a configuration option now.

    GKE on GCP

    New GKE Sandbox brings added security to your containers running in Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.

    Source: GKE Sandbox: Bring defense in depth to your pods | Google Cloud Blog