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You can earn your Google Al Professional Certificate for free - and I highly recommend it

From AI fundamentals to data analysis and app building, Google's certificate covers quite a lot. And there's a way to avoid paying anything to earn your credential.

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A container per job, without a daemon

Some workloads want an image each. A build that needs a specific toolchain, a test that needs a specific database client, a task whose dependencies are described by something other than a human.

  • Individual images for each task without Docker or build daemon
  • Package list provided to tools like apko for reproducible image
  • Eliminates build step, malicious input risk, and build-time entropy

Taking the network away from a Cloud Run job

If you execute other people's code, at some point you have to decide what it is allowed to reach. Mine should reach nothing: no package registry, no pastebin, no callback to a server that tells it the…

  • Use unshare -rn -- ./run-the-untrusted-thing to strip network from Cloud Run job
  • Works only with second-generation Cloud Run environment with microVM
  • Set maxRetries to 0 to prevent automatic retries on failure

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