We Strongly believe that access information to Cloud in ~/.aws or ~/.azure files are not safe, and we prefer to store that information in an encrypted file managed by the system. Credentials will be hourly rotated and accessible in those files only when they are needed, so only when Leapp is active.

The initial requirements were quite straightforward: build docker images, write Helm Charts, write Terraform code, and deploy on Kubernetes. Well… it turned out there was much much more to it.

They also clearly have a better integration story than AWS does since Google teams are apparently allowed to speak to one another in the company cafeteria. But that story remains weak at the introductory level—and that’s what matters.

cloudquery exposes your cloud configuration and metadata as sql tables, providing powerful analysis and monitoring without writing code.

Today I’m happy to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in Switzerland in the second half of 2022. When the AWS Europe (Zurich) Region is launched, developers, start-ups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations will be able to run their applications and serve end users across the region from data centers located in Switzerland.

Cloud Custodian is a rules engine for managing public cloud accounts and resources. It allows users to define policies to enable a well managed cloud infrastructure, that's both secure and cost optimized. It consolidates many of the adhoc scripts organizations have into a lightweight and flexible tool, with unified metrics and reporting.

End of sale for new licenses: To focus on delivering a world-class cloud experience, we will stop selling new licenses for our server offerings and apps.

Infracost shows hourly and monthly cost estimates for a Terraform project. This helps developers, DevOps et al. quickly see the cost breakdown and compare different deployment options upfront.

Note: The vulnerabilities that are discussed in this post were patched quickly and properly by Google. We support responsible disclosure. The research that resulted in this post was done by me and …

Regula checks Terraform for AWS, Azure and GCP security and CIS compliance using Open Policy Agent/Rego - fugue/regula

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting…

"We could not have met the demand for HEY without the public cloud," says SRE Blake Stoddard in this under-the-hood look at Kubernetes infrastructure.

Scalr allows to scale Cloud instances on Public Clouds

Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes diagrams for free

CScanner scans your cloud accounts for potential security problems.

Crossplane is an open source multicloud control plane. It introduces workload and resource abstractions on-top of existing managed services that enables a high degree of workload portability across cloud providers. A single crossplane enables the provisioning and full-lifecycle management of services and infrastructure across a wide range of providers, offerings, vendors, regions, and clusters. Crossplane offers a universal API for cloud computing, a workload scheduler, and a set of smart controllers that can automate work across clouds.

Define cloud applications and infrastructure in your favorite language, using an open source platform that enables sharing, reuse, and safe and predictable changes in a team environment.

Scality S3 Server is now called Zenko: Same team with a new name and more features. Zenko is working toward a multi cloud era. Download now and try for free.

cockroach - CockroachDB - the scalable, survivable, strongly-consistent SQL database