Trying to access the general metadata around your cloud deployment is something that’s incredibly useful when it comes to analyzing your overall cloud footprint. If you’re a Google Cloud user, a lot of this is already simplified as most applications typically export directly to BigQuery. For example, your billing data can be easily exported to …
OPA Gatekeeper has become an important tool in the Kubernetes ecosystem to provide security controls and guardrails for resources in your cluster. Understanding how Gatekeeper sees input gives a great perspective on what policies can be created and how they might work in a real cluster. This article examines how this tool uses input, allowing …
Examining Gatekeeper: Extracting Sample Input for OPA Gatekeeper Policy Development Read More »
As our clients get comfortable with Gatekeeper as a tool, they quickly think of additional ideas for impactful use cases. This is generally when custom constraint templates come into the picture. This article will help you understand how these policies are defined using the Rego policy language.
The Google Certified Fellows program recognizes cloud architects and engineers that have demonstrated aptitude and expertise in creating innovative and comprehensive solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP). SADA has a comparatively large contingent of Google Certified Fellows, and in this post we’re going to talk about this program and what it means. At the time …
You’ve just completed your cloud Proof-of-Concept (POC). Your team spent dozens–even hundreds of hours and long days, enduring frustrations and successes proving the methodology and technology. It feels like it’s time for the next step in your cloud journey–but really, it’s the time to step back and evaluate your POC objectively. Let’s face it–POC also …
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