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Ask HN: How do you sync your user/dev environments?

What do you do to sync environments across multiple systems? Not just development, but also general user space.I've considered putting my user directory in Dropbox, a git repo, or a Docker container.Any other suggestions? Any that offer live-reload upon change?

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Ask HN: How does your company/organization handle cloud account ownership?

For example, with both AWS and GCP there exists a "root" account.Do a single or multiple people retain control of this account?Generally one should avoid using the root account, but there are situations when you must[1][2]So if you limit access to this account to an individual and they take actions to secure the account (eg, random password, multi-factor authentication), what happens if they...

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Ask HN: Best Practice for GCP and GSuite Authentication and Authorization?

With regard to Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and G Suite.What are the current best practices when setting up service Authentication and Authorization for: owners, administrators, developers, end-users, etc.?For example, in AWS I would never use the Root account instead having a separate ("bastion") IAM account that other service accounts/groups could query to retrieve transient tokens to...

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