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 Google API Private Access Private Google Access is configured at the subnet level and allows subnetworks to access GCP services privately. The resources in the subnet can access Google services without an external IP, for eg: Cloud storage, Youtube, etc. It offers better security as the exposure to outside networks is reduced, thereby minimizing the possibilities of data interception and attacks. Google cloud service accounts  These accounts are used for service-to-service authentication. For eg: an application in compute engine can use a service account to access a storage account  Two types of service accounts - Google-managed service accounts & user-managed service accounts In Google-managed service accounts, the private and public keys are managed by Google. Each key can be used for a max of two weeks. Private keys of google managed keys are never directly accessible and the platform itself manages the key rotation process With user-managed keys, only public keys...

 In the third part of our tech basics series on Containers, Microservices & Kubernetes, we will talk about Pods, ReplicaSets, and Replication controllers. If you are new here, do check out  Part 1  and  Part 2  of this blog series first!! What are Pods? Pods are the smallest object you can create in Kubernetes that encapsulates containers. Imagine a single node K8s clusters running a single pod. When the application needs to scale, you create additional pods of the same application. The pods can also be distributed across multiple nodes in a cluster. Usually, the relationship between pods and containers is 1:1, but it is not mandatory. There is a case of a side car  container as well, which could be helping the main application and included in the same pod. Every time a new pod of the application is created, both the main container and sidecar container are created together. They share the same network and storage and can connect to each other as localh...