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It is not a rare case when an application running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) needs to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) APIs. Any application has needs. Maybe it needs to run an analytics query on Amazon Redshift, access data stored in Amazon S3 bucket, convert text to speech with Amazon Polly or use any other AWS service. This multi-cloud scenario is common nowadays, as companies are working with multiple cloud providers.

DoiT International (“DoiT” or the “Company”), the leading provider of proprietary public cloud optimization and operations software and public cloud expertise, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire superQuery (superquery.io) — a unique development platform for Google BigQuery helping data teams to increase data exploration speed and cost optimization of big data workloads.

Infrastructure as code (IaC) is hard. Often, you need to set up infrastructure (nowadays usually with Terraform) and you start writing a code that fits your specific use case.

Secrets are essential for the operation of many production systems. Unintended secrets exposure is one of the top risks that should be properly addressed. Developers should do their best to protect application secrets.

Managing secrets natively in Kubernetes is not a secure option. Secrets in Kubernetes is just a base64 encoded plain text that can be consumed in a running pod.

Can Two walk together, except they be agreed? [Amos 3:3] Last week Amazon announced third-party resource support for AWS CloudFormation.

Recently, Google announced that as of 2020 it will increase the prices of Google Compute Engine VMs that use external IPv4 addresses. Run this script to estimate future costs for your machines.

AWS released an awesome tool to teach Reinforcement Learning to beginners, but only exposed a limited interface for controlling it. We’ve hacked it and turned it into a Deep Q-Learning Raging Bull, compatible with OpenAI Gym and powered by TensorFlow.

BOSTON, Nov. 01, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DoiT International (“DoiT” or the “Company”), a leading provider of proprietary public cloud optimization and operations software and public cloud expertise, today announced that Charlesbank Technology Opportunities Fund, a fund managed by Charlesbank Capital Partners, along with affiliated investors, has invested over $100 million in the Company.

Many of our customers who have tried to create a Kubernetes cluster encountered this error message without specific logs that may help them understand what went wrong. This is how we usually solve it.

Often you want to configure your Kubernetes services to use a specific Google service account (much like kube2iam project).

Opinionated take on how to use Google Cloud Run for functions that take longer than 10–15 minutes