Kubernetes 1.27 introduces "Node log query," which enables cluster administrators to view logs of services running on the node using kubectl. This feature helps to debug malfunctioning services running on the node and is especially useful for Windows nodes. The feature uses heuristics to retrieve l.. read more  

Attackers are exploiting Kubernetes RBAC to create backdoors and deploying DaemonSets to take over and hijack resources. The campaign is targeting at least 60 clusters and is caused by misconfigured API servers. The attacker gains persistence by creating a ClusterRole with admin-level privileges, b.. read more  

Instacart handlesover two trillion events a yearin their data pipelines and adopted Apache Flink for real-time distributed processing in 2021. They have used Flink for real-time decision-making, data augmentation, machine learning, and OLAP events ingestion. Running Flink on AWS' EMR was not suffic.. read more  

The Kubernetes community has recognized the growing demand for batch processing support and has made significant investments in this direction. The Batch Working Group has built numerous improvements to the Job API, making it more robust and flexible to support a wider range of batch processing wor.. read more  

Google Cloud has made itsAssured Open Source Software (OSS)service for Java and Python ecosystems available to all organizations at no cost. This comes as a response to the increasing threats hidden in open source software. The code packages available as part of Google’s Assured OSS program are reg.. read more  

A vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform allowed attackers to use an OAuth application to create a backdoor to any Google account, according to cybersecurity firm Astrix. The bug, calledGhostToken, allowed attackers to hide the malicious application from Google users and leverage it to access their .. read more  

Google has shifted its AI chip engineering team to the Google Cloud sector, possibly indicating a focus on AI-powered cloud offerings. Statista datashows that Amazon Web Services holds the largest market share in the cloud sector. While Google has released the Bard chatbot, Microsoft has invested .. read more  

In this blog post on "Creating a Landing Zone for Google Cloud with Terraform and Fabric", the author provides a step-by-step guide to set up a production-ready landing zone on GCP using Google's open sourceFabric Fast, a module reference configuration that automates infrastructure as code. The gui.. read more  

The article discusses how a developerunknowingly incurred $3,000 in costs while using Google Cloud BigQuery due to a poorly optimized query. The article outlines three easy steps to optimize the query and reduce costs by 99.97%. These steps include avoiding using "SELECT *", using a partitioned ta.. read more  

Sergey Shcherbakov provides a breakdown of the options for arranging network ingress traffic into Kubernetes clusters, specifically in Google Cloud (GKE) or on-premise (Anthos on Bare Metal, Anthos on VMware). The article disambiguates many technical terms often used in discussions around network i.. read more