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Why are we still building tools to hand manage VMs in 2021? Am I missing something or is this for raising pets instead of heading cattle[0]? 0. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...
I make use of IAP and OS Login today, to log in to a Compute Engine Linux VM. The VM has Internet access via NAT, and has no public IP. Logging in is via `gcloud compute ssh`. Authenticating `gcloud` involves a corporate login which uses a client certificate and two-step. For all the components involved, it works pretty well!
Can you encrypt the client private key on disk and use sth like ssh-agent?
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I use Windows VMs on Google Cloud to install and play games in the cloud - my Mac can’t play any
Parsec is outstanding for this use case, it’s basically a roll-your-own Stadia. Dunno what its future will be now that it was acquired by Unity
I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.
I’d say appearance != usability, and while this might look a bit dated, it probably behaves a lot more like a desktop application than most Electron apps out there.
I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.
In my opinion, this looks far better and more usable than a lot of new UIs nowadays. I’d say appearance != usability, and while this might look a bit dated, it probably behaves a lot more like a desktop application than most Electron apps out there.
Why are we still building tools to hand manage VMs in 2021? Am I missing something or is this for raising pets instead of heading cattle[0]? 0. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...
Because when your herd of cattle is sick, you need to grab one and have a vet look at it before your whole herd dies from the plague.
There is nothing I can learn from accessing a VM in production that I can't learn from my monitoring system.
In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent.
Of you need an interactive session on a prod machine you are missing tools.
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Because when your herd of cattle is sick, you need to grab one and have a vet look at it before your whole herd dies from the plague.
No, part of managing a heard is having the right tools in place. Like monitoring, logging, and observability tools. There is nothing I can learn from accessing a VM in production that I can't learn from my monitoring system. In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent. Of you need an interactive session on a…
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Because when your herd of cattle is sick, you need to grab one and have a vet look at it before your whole herd dies from the plague.
No, part of managing a heard is having the right tools in place. Like monitoring, logging, and observability tools. There is nothing I can learn from accessing a VM in production that I can't learn from my monitoring system. In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent. Of you need an interactive session on a…
My rule for that is: more than once a year or more than 6h? Automate and tool it. Less? SSH or other special-case tools are fine.
I didn't know big tech companies were still capable of making GUI's that look like this.