CloudPro #2: Azure Outages Caused by DDoS Attack, Top 10 Kubernetes Security Tools, and Deploying Dockerized Apps on GCP
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“Generative AI has the potential to revolutionize a wide variety of business processes and even transform entire industries.”
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Our mission with this newsletter is to bring you the freshest updates in Cloud, Cloud Native Development, Cloud Architecture, Identity and Access Management, CI/CD, DevSecOps, Cloud Security, and all related domains.
In today’s issue, we discuss Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s announcement of new AI-Focused cloud computing service, Microsoft’s confirmation that the Azure, Outlook outages were caused by DDoS attacks, and new projections that estimate that the global retail cloud market will reach $133 billion by 2029.
We’ve also got you the weekly dose of great cloud resources, secret knowledge, and tutorials on optimizing Kubernetes cluster architecture, an interesting discussion on the downsides of Generative AI for cloud operations, the top 10 Kubernetes security tools you can use today, and a tutorial on deploying dockerized apps on GCP.
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⚡ TechWave: Cloud News & Analysis
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Introduces AI-Focused Cloud Computing Service, Expands GreenLake for Supercomputing: HPE has introduced a new cloud computing service to meet the growing demand for AI systems comparable to ChatGPT. This move positions HPE in direct competition with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. HPE cloud service will be available in North America this year and expanded to Europe next year. HPE is also scaling its GreenLake cloud service to offer high-performance computing options for LLMs, enabling customers to run HPC-focused machine learning applications without on-premise supercomputers.
Microsoft Confirms Azure, Outlook Outages Caused by DDoS Attacks: Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages of its Azure, Outlook, and OneDrive web portals were caused by Layer 7 DDoS attacks by a threat actor known as Storm-1359, identified as Anonymous Sudan. The attacks targeted different services on June 7th, 8th, and 9th and overwhelmed the application level, causing services to hang. No customer data was compromised.
Alibaba Appoints Joseph Tsai Chairman, Eddie Wu CEO, Will Increase Focus on Cloud: Alibaba Group Chairman and CEO, Daniel Zhang, announced his focus on Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group as its spin-off progresses, with Joseph C. Tsai succeeding him as Chairman and Eddie Yongming Wu taking over as CEO of Alibaba Group. Alibaba's cloud division reported $2.7 billion in revenue for Q1 2023, representing 9% of the company's total revenue.
Google Cloud Enters Anti-money Laundering Space with AI Product: Google Cloud has entered the anti-money laundering (AML) space with the launch of an AML AI solution. The product aims to help global financial institutions improve their ability to detect money laundering by leveraging proprietary machine learning and the broader Google Cloud ecosystem. Trialists of the solution include HSBC, Bradesco, and Lunar.
SAP Announces Launch of Oman’s First Datacenter for Private Cloud: Oman witnessed the launch of its first private cloud datacenter by SAP SE in collaboration with Oman's Ministry of Transport, Communications, and IT. The datacenter aims to accelerate innovation, cloud adoption, and enable secure in-country data storage for companies across various industries, supporting Oman's Vision 2040 strategy.
Vultr Cloud Alliance Enables a Composable Approach to Cloud-Native Applications: Vultr, the largest privately-held cloud computing company, has launched the Vultr Cloud Alliance, offering a marketplace of plug-and-play services from top IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS providers to provide customers with a simple control panel to deploy infrastructure and add services from one central portal.
The Global Retail Cloud Market to Reach $133 Billion by 2029: According to a new Reportlinker.com report, the global retail cloud market is projected to reach $133 billion by 2029, growing at a CAGR of 19.2% during the forecast period. The solutions segment is expected to capture over 72% market share by 2029. North America leads the market, fueled by the booming retail industry and the demand for cloud-based retail solutions.
📚 Secret Knowledge: Learning Resources
Optimized Kubernetes Cluster Architecture: Considerations and Best Practices: The post highlights key considerations and best practices for optimizing a Kubernetes cluster architecture. Explore the importance of careful configuration, sandbox solutions, cluster segmentation, limiting communication between services, and implementing effective operations and deployment practices.
3 Downsides of Generative AI for Cloud Operations: The post takes you through some potential downsides of generative AI for cloud operations. Know how the accelerated deployment of applications can lead to scalability and cost challenges and why cost overruns can occur due to the high expenses associated with generative AI systems.
Transform Your Apache Iceberg Lakehouse with BigLake: Apache Iceberg is an open table format that enables organizations to manage and analyze data hosted on object stores for improved outcomes. Learn how to use BigLake's support for Iceberg for seamless integration with open-source engines like Spark, Trino, and Flink.
Fast and Efficient Search with OpenSearch and MinIO: OpenSearch (Apache Lucene-based search and analytics engine) and MinIO (̌distributed object storage system) offer a solution for efficiently searching and storing large amounts of data. Read the post to know how to use OpenSearch to leverage MiniIO to handle growing log data and store snapshots for efficient search and analysis.
It’s Time for the Kubernetes Value Line: Learn how embracing new operating models, automating processes, and prioritizing security are key to unlocking the true value of Kubernetes.
Kubernetes in Scalefast: The Strategy Behind Breaking the Monolith: Know how Scalefast integrated Kubernetes to address the limitations of their monolithic eCommerce application, with the shift to microservices enabling horizontal scaling, reduced maintenance costs, and improved scalability.
10+ Top Kubernetes Security Tools in 2023: This article highlights the top Kubernetes security tools that can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure secure deployments and prevent vulnerabilities. Know more about open-source tools like Clair, Checkov, Kubeaudit, KubeLinter, Kube-bench, Kube-hunter, and rbac-lookup, as well as general-purpose tools like Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Istio.
🔍 MasterClass: Tutorials & Guides
Health Monitoring in Kubernetes: Container health in Kubernetes is managed through three probes: liveness, startup, and readiness. You’ll learn how the liveness probe automatically checks if a container is healthy and the functions and uses of the other probes.
Build an ML Training Pipeline with MinIO and Kubeflow v2.0: The article discusses the process of building an ML model training pipeline using MinIO and Kubeflow Pipelines (KFP). Learn about the importance of having a high-speed storage solution to avoid GPU underutilization.
Integrating SAMBA 4 Active Directory with AWS IAM Identity Center: This blog post explains how to integrate an LDAP open-source solution with AWS IAM Identity Center, using either AWS Managed Active Directory or Active Directory Connector. Read the post for step-by-step instructions.
Understanding Multi-arch Containers, Benefits, and CI/CD Integration: The blog post discusses multi-arch container images and their benefits. You’ll learn how multi-arch images allow running the same application on different CPU architectures without creating separate images.
A Primer on GCP Compute Instance VMs for Dockerized Apps: This tutorial on deploying dockerized apps on GCP via the Cloud Console UI covers the process of setting up VMs and preparing them to run dockerized applications.
Continuous Deployment pipeline with Cloud Build on Cloud Run: Cloud Build on Cloud Run is used to create a Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline. Learn how to use Cloud Build to build and push a Docker image to Container Registry, and then deploy the image on Cloud Run.
✨ HackHub: Trending Tools
nextcloud/server: Nextcloud server is a safe home for all your data.
ory/hydra: OpenID Certified OpenID Connect and OAuth Provider written in Go - cloud native, security-first, open source API security for your infrastructure.
nats-io/nats-server: High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.
OpenMeter: OpenMeter offers real-time, scalable, accurate, and fault-tolerant metering for a variety of use cases.
prowler-cloud/prowler: Prowler is an open-source security tool for AWS, Azure and GCP to perform cloud security best practices assessments, audits, incident response, compliance, continuous monitoring, hardening, and forensics readiness.
catboost: A fast, scalable Gradient Boosting library for Python, R, Java, C++ that supports CPU and GPU computation.
h2o-3: H2O is an in-memory platform for distributed, scalable machine learning.
aws/aws-cli: Universal command line interface for Amazon Web Services.
Configu: Configu is a standard for managing and collaborating software configurations. It provides a common, flexible, and extensible process for storing, mutating, and orchestrating configuration data across different environments and systems.
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