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Not secure by default Let’s start with a bold statement: Google Cloud IaaS is not secure by default. Don’t start scrambling your security engineers just yet, the solution is just a few reading minutes away… To make it as convenient as possible, tcp ports 22 (SSH) and 3389 (RDP) are opened by default in the firewall after clicking through the ‘create instance’ wizard in Google Cloud’s default network. (source) This way, if your vm has a public IP, your virtual machine is reachable through RDP (Windows) or SSH (Linux) right after creation....

The Kleenex effect Back in January 2014, I was invited to Finland to host a lecture and workshop on software containers. At the time, the software container concept was fairly new, so getting the attention of the audience wasn’t very challenging. In any case, it was easier than waking up the day after: Team Belgium might have overestimated their thirst a little. Docker wasn’t yet very mature and was still in the 0....