Using Snowflake to Query Datasets from GCS
| 06 May 2021 | ~12 minutes | Comments |
Greg Robinson
Taking a look at the Snowflake platform and how it integrates with Google Cloud Storage.
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Arctiq Announces New Data and Analytics Practice Led by Frank Thomas
| 03 May 2021 | ~1 minutes | Comments |
Kayla Matson
Arctiq is pleased to announce that, effective May 3, 2021, Frank Thomas has been appointed as Data Practice Leader
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Arctiq Announces Eric Ng as new CEO
| 22 Mar 2021 | ~1 minutes | Comments |
Kayla Matson
Arctiq is pleased to announce that, effective March 22, 2021, Eric Ng has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer.
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Arctiq Announces David Briand as new CTO
| 22 Mar 2021 | ~1 minutes | Comments |
Kayla Matson
Arctiq is pleased to announce that, effective March 22, 2021, David Briand has been appointed as Chief Technical Officer (CTO).
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Ending 2020 on a High Note
| 29 Jan 2021 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Stuart Gendron
New opportunity in strange times.
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CICD Pipelines using Gitlab CI & Argo CD with Anthos Config Management
| 18 Jan 2021 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
ArctiqTeam
Follow up blog to a popular demo on YouTube going over the details of the configurations for building GitOps based CICD pipelines using GitLab CI and ArgoCD.
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The Year in Review - 2020
| 30 Dec 2020 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Kayla Matson
After a year that was often disorienting, it can be grounding to take a moment to look back at your accomplishments. What thing are you most proud of from the past year? In what ways did you grow in spite of (or, because of) the difficult moments?
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Consul Snapshot Agent with Dynamic ACL Tokens via Vault Agent
| 08 Dec 2020 | ~9 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
The ability to automatically revoke or rotate credentials is something that is likely sought after by any operations team. HashiCorp Vault provides the ability to generate dynamic credentials for supported systems and handle the lifecycle of them.
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Seal Wrapping with HashiCorp Vault and CloudHSM
| 02 Dec 2020 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
Utilize an HSM with HashiCorp Vault for Seal Wrapping; an extra layer of encryption
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Integrating Hashicorp Vault with Azure AKS using Azure POD Identity
| 23 Nov 2020 | ~7 minutes | Comments |
Mohsin Raza
How AzureAD Pod Identity can be used in AKS to consume secrets in Vault
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Go Faster with Terraform Cloud API
| 29 Oct 2020 | ~4 minutes | Comments |
Marc LeBlanc
Terraform Cloud is a Saas solution which provides a platofrm to Manage your Terraform projects through a single control plane. See how you can leverage the API to go faster!
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Onward and Upward!
| 28 Oct 2020 | ~1 minute | Comments |
Nic Saunders
Arctiq is thrilled to announce that our own Aurora Li has obtained the highest certification available for Google cloud architects: Google Cloud Certified Fellow.
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Learning About HashiCorp Boundary
| 15 Oct 2020 | ~6 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
Dive into HashiCorp's new tool, Boundary. Understand what the tool is and go through an initial workflow.
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SSL and TLS Certificates, Cipher Suites, and Security
| 29 Sep 2020 | ~7 minutes | Comments |
Marek Anderson
Improve your security posture with TLS 1.3
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Deploying TensorFlow Models on Google's AI-Platform
| 26 Aug 2020 | ~8 minutes | Comments |
ArctiqTeam
Deploying TensorFlow Models on Google Cloud with Google's AI-Platform and App Engine
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ArctiqOS init --name leo
| 27 Jul 2020 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Leo Gharapetian
After 15 years at various forward thinking companies, Arctiq presents a fresh new perspective.
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Anthos Day 2 Operations: Security and Compliance with Policy Controller
| 20 Jul 2020 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Aurora Li
In this blog, we will cover how to leverage Anthos Policy Controller to automate the security and compliance policies enforcement and audit on Anthos clusters.
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Anthos Day 2 Operations: Monitoring and Logging
| 17 Jul 2020 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Aurora Li
Wearable tech has drastically changed the way we take care of our health. Instead of regular checkups, we are relying on all the smart devices to constantly monitor our health metrics, log our activities, provide a holistic view of trends, and even poke us if we sit for too long. Fortunately, Anthos platform is equipped with all the “wearable tech” (metrics, logging, customized dashboards, proactive alerts) out-of-the-box. This blog will guide you to use Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging functions to keep your Anthos GKE On-Prem platforms healthy.
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Deploying Kuma and the Kong Ingress Controller in Kubernetes
| 15 Jul 2020 | ~7 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
In this blog, I want to show how to initially set up Kuma, a control-plane that offers service mesh for both Kubernetes and VM-based workloads along side the Kong ingress controller.
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CI/CD with Argo
| 13 Jul 2020 | ~19 minutes | Comments |
ArctiqTeam
Lately there is a ton of chatter in the Kubernetes ecosystem about "Kubernetes-native or cloud-native" pipelines and CI/CD. In a nutshell this really comes down to simplifying the suite of tools used, and running/deploying things in a way that is native to k8s. With a number of options available to accomplish this today, I'm not going to compare or dive deep into capabilities, but rather showcase a specific way to accomplish this with solutions from Argo and Google
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Anthos Day 2 Operations: Authentication with OIDC
| 10 Jul 2020 | ~6 minutes | Comments |
Aurora Li
In this blog, we will cover how to leverage existing OIDC provider to handle Anthos authentication and use RBAC for authorization.
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Running Consul's Ingress Gateway in Kubernetes
| 29 Jun 2020 | ~6 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
With the release of Consul 1.8 we were introduced to some new gateway features, specifically the Ingress Gateway and the Terminating Gateway.
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Arctiq Announces Acceleration Blueprint Services for Anthos
| 15 Jun 2020 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Kayla Matson
Arctiq, Inc. is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of pre-defined blueprint services for Google Anthos hybrid multi-cloud application modernization solution. These blueprint services streamline the onboarding of apps to Anthos and increase the pace of app migration, through Arctiq's proven blueprints and repeatable patterns.
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Building an API in front of Twitter Search
| 29 May 2020 | ~11 minutes | Comments |
In this follow-up article on Apigee API Management, you will learn how to develop, deploy and secure an API proxy with Apigee Hybrid. For this example we will be using the famous OAuth authenticated Twitter search API. We will be packaging, deploying and testing our first proxy. Full source code is included.
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Vault and TFE - Fun with Dynamic Secrets for GCP
| 12 May 2020 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Marc LeBlanc
One topic that always comes up is how to handle GCP Service Account keys. What are they, what do they have access to, how do we manage them, and so forth. It is always a sensitive subject due to the risks associated if not appropriately handled. This post is a look at how we can use Vault's GCP Secrets Engine to dynamically generate service account keys and provide a central location to manage key rotation, and what access is granted with that key.
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