Tagged "Google Cloud"

TL;DR Kubernetes nodes can benefit from having dedicated static public IP addresses in certain scenarios. KubeIP, an open-source utility, fulfills this need by assigning static public IPs to Kubernetes nodes. The latest version, KubeIP v2, extends support from Google Cloud’s GKE to Amazon’s EKS, with a design that’s ready to accommodate other cloud providers. It operates as a DaemonSet, offering improved reliability, configuration flexability and user-friendliness over the previous Kubernetes controller method.

Introduction Secrets are essential for operation of many production systems. Unintended secrets exposure is one of the top risks that should be properly addressed. Developers should do their best to protect application secrets. The problem becomes even harder, once company moves to a microservice architecture and multiple services require an access to different secrets in order to properly work. And this leads to a new challenges: how to distribute, manage, monitor and rotate application secrets, avoiding unintended exposure?