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GCP: Self-serve timed access to GCP resources using Cloud Identity and Slack (Part 1)

Introduction To contextualize the close relationship between Identity and Access Management (IAM) and cloud infrastructures, one must (naturally) look toward the Marvel universe: if Marvel’s realm of Asgard is a cloud infrastructure, then Heimdall — the all-seeing gatekeeper of Asgard who protects the realm from unauthorized access — is IAM. Because…

Gcp Weekly

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GCP — Self-serve timed access to GCP resources using Cloud Identity and Slack — Part 1
GCP — Self-serve timed access to GCP resources using Cloud Identity and Slack — Part 1

Feb 7

Writeup on TryHackMe (THM) Linux Privilege Escalation Capstone Challenge

This writeup is about the capstone challenge given in the Linux Privilege Escalation room in the TryHackMe. Link: https://tryhackme.com/room/linprivesc Privilege Escalation room covered a wide variety of privilege escalation options in a linux server. The main ones covered in this room are: - SUDO access - SUID bit - Cron Jobs - NFS share …

Oscp

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Writeup on TryHackMe (THM) Linux Privilege Escalation Capstone Challenge
Writeup on TryHackMe (THM) Linux Privilege Escalation Capstone Challenge

Published in Zeotap — Customer Intelligence Unleashed

·Sep 13, 2021

Cloud SQL IAM Database Authentication: Manage User Access to the Databases in an Efficient Way

Introduction Cloud SQL is a fully managed relational database service for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQL Server offered by Google Cloud Platform. At Zeotap, we use Cloud SQL for our relational databases and our databases are predominantly PostgreSQL. Every time we create a Cloud SQL instance, we create one admin account for…

Google Cloud Platform

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Cloud SQL IAM database authentication — Manage user access to the databases in an efficient way
Cloud SQL IAM database authentication — Manage user access to the databases in an efficient way

Published in Zeotap — Customer Intelligence Unleashed

·Jul 20, 2021

GKE Workload Identity: A Secure Way for GKE Applications to Access GCP Services

At Zeotap, we run our infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform. We have a CI/CD process in place and all our micro-services are deployed in Google Kubernetes Engine. Many of our microservices communicate with GCP services such as GCS buckets, Bigquery, etc and they need a way to authenticate themselves to…

Gcp

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GKE Workload Identity — A secure way for GKE applications to access GCP services
GKE Workload Identity — A secure way for GKE applications to access GCP services

Published in Zeotap — Customer Intelligence Unleashed

·Nov 30, 2020

Perils of GCP’s Compute Engine default service account

In GCP, a service account is an identity that can be used by services and applications running on our compute Engine instance to interact with other Google Cloud APIs. For example, if our application (deployed on an instance) reads and writes files on Cloud Storage (GCS), it must first authenticate…

Google Cloud Platform

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Perils of GCP’s Compute Engine default service account
Perils of GCP’s Compute Engine default service account

Jun 21, 2020

How I passed CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam

I recently took the CKA exam and passed it with 94%. In this post, I’ll explain how I prepared for the exam and study tips. Work experience: At zeotap, we use GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) for deploying, managing our microservices applications. Since our infrastructure is in Google Cloud, it is…

Kubernetes

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How I passed CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam
How I passed CKA — Certified Kubernetes Administrator exam

Published in Zeotap — Customer Intelligence Unleashed

·Feb 19, 2020

Apache Druid Production Setup in Google Cloud Platform with Dataproc cluster — Part 1

Apache Druid (incubating) is a real-time analytics database designed for fast slice-and-dice analytics (“OLAP” queries) on large data sets. Druid is most often used as a database for powering use cases where real-time ingest, fast query performance, and high uptime are important. To know about how druid is being used…

Druid

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Apache Druid Production Setup in Google Cloud Platform with Dataproc cluster — Part 1
Apache Druid Production Setup in Google Cloud Platform with Dataproc cluster — Part 1

Dec 15, 2019

The ZeoTech Series: The Importance of Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitoring is one of the critical yet under-appreciated aspects of infrastructure. …

AWS

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The ZeoTech Series: The Importance of Infrastructure Monitoring
The ZeoTech Series: The Importance of Infrastructure Monitoring

Sep 9, 2019

How I passed GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification

I attended the Google cloud summit Bangalore’19 which piqued my interest in Google Cloud Platform. Given the interest and demand around multi-cloud experience in the industry, I decided to dive in. I’ve 3+ years of managing cloud infrastructure in AWS, so I’m familiar with the concept of Compute, Storage, Networking…

Google Cloud Platform

4 min read

How I passed GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
How I passed GCP Associate Cloud Engineer certification
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