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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Comments
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2	2
2018	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2019	2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
2020	2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
2021	2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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throwdbaaway·Sep 15, 2021

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package... - it used to be just one project with Python, C++, and shell scripts. The Python bits got rewritten into Go, while the others got split into their own repositories.

In "Secret" Agent Exposes Azure Customers to Unauthorized Code Execution

sandGorgon·Jun 28, 2019

GCP open sourced the code here - https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package... is the AWS code opensource ?

In EC2 Instance Connect

sandGorgon·Nov 15, 2018

ha ha - fair enough. Pretty much justifies Hashicorp's valuation ;) But here's some stuff that's really missing. In Google's dashboard (and their API), you can add ssh keys after creation of an instance. Its a fairly basic functionality made possible by the "accounts daemon" (which is opensource https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...) Azure doesnt have this, etc.

In Google May Have to Get Used to Third Place in the Cloud

lmz·Dec 13, 2017

They have daemons running to manage that and do stuff like add IP addresses when IP forwarding rules are added; https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package...

In AWS Single Sign-On

boulos·Nov 7, 2017

Which bit are you referring to? I think the blog posts make this a little too abstract. It's virtio-net and as mentioned elsewhere, we like and contribute to the latest kernels to do things like better multiqueue support. For example, here's the script we install in our guest images and encourage people to run to make sure interrupts are paired to queues: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package... Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud but don't know much about networking.

In Andromeda 2.1 reduces GCP’s intra-zone latency by 40%

waych·Apr 18, 2016

For users that are using their own images, we also provide source for all our customization to the images so you can integrate functionality into yours as required. The code used on Linux to integrate the OS with the platform for ssh keys, startup script, auto-expanding root-disk, etc: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-package... For Windows, ssh keys aren't supported, however the platform has password reset built-in and starter scripts via metadata are also supported. Here's the code for the Windows agent: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-windows If running Windows, you will also need device drivers: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-windows-drive...

In Ask HN: Which cloud provider to use in 2016? AWS or GCE?