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GCP – SRE at Google: Our complete list of CRE life lessons
In 2016 we announced a new discipline at Google, Customer Reliability Engineering, an offshoot of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Our goal with CRE was (and still is) to create a shared operational fate between Google and our Google Cloud customers, to give you more control over the critical applications you’re entrusting to us. Since then, […]
GCP – Choose the best way to use and authenticate service accounts on Google Cloud
A fundamental security premise is to verify the identity of a user before determining if they are permitted to access a resource or service. This process is known as authentication. But authentication is necessary for more than just human users. When one application needs to talk to another, we need to authenticate its identity as […]
AWS – Announcing availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with High availability for Amazon EC2
Today we are announcing the availability of on-demand Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 with High Availability and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 with High Availability Amazon Machine Images. Customers can combine the scale, performance and elasticity of Amazon EC2 with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with High availability (HA) to easily build reliable and highly […]
AWS – Announcing open source robotics projects for AWS DeepRacer
AWS DeepRacer offers an autonomous 1/18th scale race car driven by a reinforcement learning model, a cloud-based 3D racing simulator, and a global racing league. Over 85,000 developers have participated in the AWS DeepRacer virtual and in-person leagues, making AWS DeepRacer one of the most popular developer programs to ramp up on reinforcement learning. For all […]
Azure – Azure Container Registry now generally available in Korea South region
Azure Container Registry handles private Docker container images as well as related content formats, such as Helm charts, OCI artifacts, and images built to the OCI image format specification. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Proton allows adding and removing instances from an existing service
AWS Proton now allows you to add and remove instances from your services. Developers can now dynamically update their services as their deployment needs change. For instance, they can add a new production instance if a new production environment is added, without having to tear their service down. Read More for the details.
AWS – AWS Proton adds an API to cancel deployments
AWS Proton now features a cancellation API to help you manage your deployments in real time. You can use the cancel deployment API to stop the deployment of a service and try again if it’s taking too long or has an error. Read More for the details.
GCP – GKE operations magic: From an alert to resolution in 5 steps
As applications move from monolithic architectures to microservices-based architectures, DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams face new operational challenges. Microservices are updated constantly with new features and resource managers/schedulers (like Kubernetes and GKE) can add/remove containers in response to changing workloads. The old way of creating alerts based on learned behaviors of your monolithic […]
AWS – AWS Proton introduces customer-managed environments
AWS Proton now allows customers to import their existing shared resources as customer-managed environments. Customers can now create environments in AWS Proton by providing an infrastructure-as-code template that AWS Proton will provision, or by linking to their existing provisioned resources. This allows customers to start incorporating Proton in their existing infrastructure without having to recreate […]
AWS – Achieve faster database failover with Amazon Web Services JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL, now in preview
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Java (JDBC) Driver for PostgreSQL is now available in preview. This open-source database driver allows applications connecting to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL to minimize failover time by closely monitoring the database cluster status. Read More for the details.