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thowawaypets··on Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud
No, part of managing a heard is having the right tools in place. Like monitoring, logging, and observability tools.

There is nothing I can learn from accessing a VM in production that I can't learn from my monitoring system.

In prod where I work, if someone logs into a production VM we mark it tainted and replace it with a fresh instance. This keeps things nice and consistent.

Of you need an interactive session on a prod machine you are missing tools.

thowawaypets··on Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud
Why are we still building tools to hand manage VMs in 2021? Am I missing something or is this for raising pets instead of heading cattle[0]?

0. http://cloudscaling.com/blog/cloud-computing/the-history-of-...