In November 2022, the open source Kubernetes project announced that its new image registry, registry.k8s.gcr.io, was officially GA. The new registry would replace the legacy k8s.gcr.io registry, with k8s.gcr.io getting no further updates after April 3, 2023. To assist in this transition and ensure that users of earlier Kubernetes releases and tooling can update to […]

AI is having a transformative moment and causing profound shifts in what’s possible with technology. It has the power to unlock the potential of communities, companies, and countries around the world, bringing meaningful and positive change that could improve billions of peoples’ lives. Similarly, as these technologies advance, they have the potential to vastly improve […]

Cloud Audit logs serve a vital purpose in Google Cloud by helping customers meet their compliance and security requirements. Log Analytics, a recent feature addition to Cloud Logging, brings new capabilities to search, aggregate and transform logs at query time using the power of SQL. Together with predefined queries in Community Security Analytics, Log Analytics […]

Recently I had to advise a customer on how to use Anthos Service Mesh (ASM) to manage communication and integration between services inside and outside a mesh. The goals they had were: Getting traces and metrics for the traffic from the mesh to external services Redeploying the legacy services in the cloud GKE cluster Progressively […]

As cloud environments scale and evolve based on changing business priorities, security teams may struggle to understand where their biggest risks are and where to focus their security controls. Some cloud security products have begun to incorporate attack path analysis to address this prioritization problem. Attack path analysis is a technique of discovering possible pathways […]

The Cloud SQL Go connector is the easiest way to securely connect your Go application to your Cloud SQL database. If you are writing a Go application, we recommend using the Cloud SQL Go connector. When to use the Cloud SQL Go connector Cloud SQL has two types of connectors: Language-specific connectors – Available for […]

I often get questions from people who are interested in pursuing a career in cloud computing. As the cloud continuously evolves, opportunities open across the major categories of infrastructure, networking, application development, security, operations, automation, data analysis and AI/ML. There is a lot to choose from! So how do you begin building a career in […]

It’s no secret that hackathons can be a great way to quickly generate creative solutions to complex problems. With a well-crafted brief and a set of operating constraints, hackathon participants can innovate quickly and collaborate openly—often generating the beginnings of notable software advancements. This spirit of rapid innovation came to life recently when the Department […]