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🔗 From the web
 
cloud.google.com cloud.google.com
 
Practicing the principle of least privilege with Cloud Build and Artifact Registry   ✅
 
 
People often use Cloud Build and Artifact Registry in tandem to build and store software artifacts - these include container images, to be sure, but also OS packages and language specific packages.

Consider a venn diagram where these same users are also users who use the Google Cloud project as a shared, multi-tenant environment. Because a project is a logical encapsulation for services like
Cloud Build and Artifact Registry, administrators of these services want to apply the principle of least privilege in most cases.

Of the numerous benefits from practicing this, reducing the blast radius of misconfigurations or malicious users is perhaps most important.

Users and teams should be able to use Cloud Build and Artifact Registry safely - without the ability to disrupt or damage one another.

With per-trigger service accounts in Cloud Build and per-repository permissions in Artifact Registry, this post walks through how you can make this possible.
 
 
cloud.google.com cloud.google.com
 
4 ways to optimize your GKE costs
 
 
Trimming your Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) costs is a simple matter of using built-in tools and following well-established best practices.
 
 
cloud.google.com cloud.google.com
 
No-cost learning with Google Cloud
 
 
Access no-cost Google Cloud training on Coursera - grow in-demand cloud skills to stand out in the job market.
 
 
securityintelligence.com securityintelligence.com
 
How an Attacker Can Achieve Persistence in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with Cloud Shell   ✅
 
 
IBM Security X-Force Red took a deeper look at the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and found a potential method an attacker could use to persist in GCP via the Google Cloud Shell.
 
 

 
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📺 Quick Hits
 
 
Cloud Storage gets better system observability with customizable monitoring dashboards.
  • Google Cloud announced the public preview of a new set of Cloud Storage Monitoring Dashboards for Cloud Storage, which are available at both the project level and bucket level.
  • All Cloud Storage users can now access the new dashboards through the Monitoring tab on the left navigation menu.
  • If you have monitoring editor or owner access or project editor or owner access, you can add an alert chart from a previously created alert policy, or you can create an alert by customizing the out-of-the-box dashboard. You are able to see the alerts directly in context on the Cloud Storage Monitoring page if you added the alert chart in a customized dashboard.
  • The customizable dashboard enables you to perform the troubleshooting journey inside the storage pages on the platform, reducing the need to navigate between different monitoring tools or even different monitoring platforms.
 
 
Google announced Private Marketplace, now in preview.
  • The new Private Marketplace feature allows IT and cloud administrators to create a private, curated version of Google Cloud Marketplace that’s accessible to employees within their organization.
  • With your own Private Marketplace, you can: Curate product collections for your org, prevent redundant products, and reduce "shadow IT".
  • Setting up a Private Marketplace is easy and straightforward (Google Cloud Marketplace > Marketplace Governance > Private Marketplace)
  • If you have teams or users that typically use different products from Google Cloud Marketplace, you can create multiple collections for each of them so they only see what’s most relevant.
 
 
📚 Book picks
 
www.amazon.com www.amazon.com
 
⭐ Cloud Finops: Collaborative, Real-time Cloud Financial Management
 
 
With this book, you'll learn:
  • The DNA of a highly functional cloud FinOps culture
  • A road map to build executive support for FinOps adoption
  • How to understand and forecast your cloud spending
  • How to empower engineering and finance to work together
  • Cost allocation strategies to create accountability for cloud and container spend
  • Strategies for rate discounts from cloud commitments
  • When and how to implement automation of repetitive cost tasks
  • How to empower engineering team action on cost efficiency
  • Using unit economics to drive data-driven decision-making
 
 
 
⚙️ Tools
 
github.com github.com
 
lynnlangit/gcp-for-bioinformatics
 
 
GCP for Bioinformatics Researchers
 
 
github.com github.com
 
Twingate-Labs/tg-ip-lookup
 
 
Lookup an IP address to find out which public cloud it originates from
 
 
github.com github.com
 
cloudknit-io/cloudknit
 
 
Open Source Solution for Managing Cloud Environments
 
 
github.com github.com
 
slok/tfe-drift
 
 
Automated Terraform cloud and enterprise drift detection
 
 
github.com github.com
 
clouditor/clouditor
 
 
The Clouditor is a tool to support continuous cloud assurance.
 
 
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