Google Cloud

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....

About Cloud Run It’s hard not to be impressed by the current featureset of Google Cloud Run, the stateless & serverless GCP service that celebrated it’s first birthday recently. As new capabilities are dropped frequently, there is an increasing number of use cases. In many of our architectural designs at vBridge, Cloud Run gets a front seat. But what does it cost? “Ok, you have my attention, but .. what about pricing?...