Audean Wiki - gcp

A

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 May 2023 07:01:23 +0000

A * Andromeda: the GCP software-defined network virtualization stack * (2019: v2.2) * (2017: v2.1) * Anycast IP address: * An IP address that is used by multiple devices in multiple locations. Routing determines the “nearest” device to w…

B

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:08:14 +0000

B * BGP = Border Gateway Protocol * Wikipedia: standardized exterior gateway protocol designed to exchange routing and reachability information among autonomous systems (AS) on the Internet * Variants: Internal BGP within an AS, External BGP on the internet

C

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 22 May 2023 19:03:36 +0000

C * Canary testing: * at Google, using a subset of real traffic to test the production performance of a new version * * Elsewhere: serving a release to a predefined test population, as opposed to A/B which is statistics-based * CIDR = Classless Inter-Domain Routing

D

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 May 2023 06:33:41 +0000

D * DHCP = Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol * Used to allocated the internal IP addresses of VMs and services depending on VMs like AppEngine or GKE, with leases renewed every 24 hours * DEK: Data Encryption Key * In Cloud KMS, a key actually used to encrypt data, not to encrypt other keys with

E

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 May 2023 07:23:47 +0000

E * East-West traffic: * In general, traffic within a data center. * In GCP, intra-VPC traffic. * Compare North-South traffic * Edge Pop: see PoP * Envoy: * An Open Source reverse proxy * The basis of the GCP Global external HTTP(S) load balancer (not the

F

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 May 2023 07:35:07 +0000

F * Firebase: * a PaaS GCP service focused on developing web and mobile applications. * Compare AppEngine * FQDN: Fully Qualified Domain Name * A complete DNS name that does not depend on a current context * For GCE VMs, it has a fixed shape: ..c..internal

G

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 16 May 2023 08:05:22 +0000

G * Geofeed: a list of IP address ranges associated with geolocation information * Created by Google in 2013 * Standardized as RFC 8805 in 2020 * GFE = Google Front End * Software-defined, distributed systems that sit in Google's <>s and are distributed globally.

I

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:23:33 +0000

I * IAC = Infrastructure As Code * AWS:Cloud Formation * FLOSS: Terraform * GCP: Google Cloud Deployment Manager, Terraform * IAM = Identity and Access Management * IDS = Intrusion Detection System * ISO 14001: an internationally agreed standard that sets out the requirements for an environmental management system

J

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:24:20 +0000

J * Jitter: latency variation * In reliability techniques, it is used to add randomness to exponential backoff retry delay to better spread retry load spikes * Jupiter: the GCP network fabric *

K

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:37:04 +0000

K * KEK = Key-Encryption-Key * In Cloud KMS, a key only used to encrypt other keys. * Compare DEK * KNative: an Open Source serverless extension for Kubernetes

L

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 May 2023 07:36:36 +0000

L * Location: a large geographic location, grouping Regions. There are 7 locations: * APAC = Asia-Pacific * asia, australia * North America * northamerica, us * South America * southamerica * Europe * europe * Middle East

M

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:01:29 +0000

M * Maglev * “a large, distributed software system”, the basis for the network load balancer in Cloud Load Balancing. * * MIG = Managed Instance Group * A group of identical instances sharing an instance template, and which can be resized * typically used with autoscaler but doesn't have to. Their unmanaged counterparts are only usable for load balancing, but not autocaling

N

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 06 May 2023 16:27:03 +0000

N * NAS = Network Attached Storage * File storage over a network, possibly using NFS or CIFS protocol * NEG = Network Endpoint Group * A configuration object that specifies a group of backend endpoints or services * Commonly used with containers

O

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:28:11 +0000

O * OTEL = Open TELemetry * A CNCF standard for metrics, logs, and distributed tracing *

P

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 May 2023 07:20:14 +0000

P * PFS = Perfect Forward Secrecy * Peering: * In the case of VPCs, the mechanism by which a network in one project is connected to a netork in another project. * Pod: * in Kubernetes, a wrapper around 1+ container(s), which is the smallest unit of creation/deployment

Q

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:23:31 +0000

Q * QUIC = Quick UDP Internet Connections * UDP based transport protocol meant to improve performance over TCP * defined by RFC 9000 * supported by all current (2023) major browsers, and enabled by default in all except Safari, * making over 50% of all traffic entering Google (source: Wikipedia)

R

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 May 2023 07:36:59 +0000

R * Red/Black deployment: * a lot like Blue/Green deployment, but only one of the versions ever gets traffic at any point in time. * Compare Rolling updates * Region: * A geographic area within a Location containing multiple Zones, in which GCP resources can be allocated. * Their names are structured:

S

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 12:11:52 +0000

S * Scalability: an application’s ability to handle increased load without failing. * Service: * In Kubernetes, a resource that lets you expose your application to external traffic * Compare Deployment * Session affinity: * A mechanism by which load balancers attempt to send requests from the same client to the same backends

Glossary of GCP Cloud Computing

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 May 2023 15:47:37 +0000

Glossary of GCP Cloud Computing A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z This glossary gathers acronyms, initialisms, and general expressions, as they are specifically used in the context of GCP, where they may have specialized definitions when compared with their more general use.

T

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 06 May 2023 15:55:37 +0000

T * TCO = Total Cost of Ownership * TLS = Transport Layer Security * Traffic Director: * GCP's fully managed traffic control plane for service mesh like Istio via Envoy * Can use NEG backends

U

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 08:37:57 +0000

U * U2F = Universal 2nd Factor * Obsoleted by CTAP and WebAuthn * Supported by Google Titan security keys * ULA = (IPV6) Unique Local Address * An IPv6 counterpart to RFC 1918 private address space, defined in RFC 4193, but internally routable. * Compare

V

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 15 May 2023 07:20:44 +0000

V * VirtIO * virtualization standard for network and disk device drivers where just the guest's device driver “knows” it is running in a virtual environment, and cooperates with the hypervisor. * an Open Source technology, maintained by project

Z

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 05 May 2023 09:11:51 +0000

Z * zonal resource: a resource that lives in a single zone, unlike a regional resource * examples: a VM, an IP address, or a persistent disk, and they need to be in the same zone to be bound together * a MIG can be regional or zonal * counter-example: a load balancer is regional,