Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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Lets jump straight into the content with small celebration: exactly 2 years ago, first issue of this newsletter was published.

News

Digging into Kubernetes 1.12 - Short overview of what's new in Kubernetes 1.12

Announcing Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for App Engine flex and second generation runtimes - With Cloud Tasks available in beta, you can offload long running and background activities, decouple services from one another, and make your applications much more resilient to failures.

Introducing private networking connection for Cloud SQL - Now in beta availability, private networking, often called Virtual Private Cloud, makes connecting to Cloud SQL from applications in GCP easier and even more secure.

Launching new GCP Support models: Role-Based and Enterprise - Google Cloud Platform Role-Based Support and Enterprise Support are now fully launched.

Articles, Tutorials

A Kubernetes FAQ for the C-suite - A short-and-to-the-point Kubernetes FAQ.

Better Cost Control in Kubernetes - How to achieve better cost control in Kubernetes.

Whitelist IPs on GCP Kubernetes Ingress - Allow traffic from specified external public IP address(es) into a Kubernetes cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

GoCD on Google Kubernetes Engine Using Terraform - GoCD is a CD tool, this post explores configuring it on Google Kubernetes Engine Using Terraform.

Continuous Delivery of HashiCorp Vault on Google Kubernetes Engine: Introduction - Blog series on Continuous Delivery of HashiCorp Vault on Google Kubernetes Engine.

Load Testing For Cloud Migration - Performance testing for a high traffic web app migrating to Google Cloud Platform.

Build docker image triggered by bitbucket push in GCP Build - Building docker image triggered by bitbucket push in GCP Build

A quick and easy way to set up an end-to-end IoT solution on Google Cloud Platform - An example of a scalable, serverless Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment that runs on GCP to ingest, process, and analyze your IoT messages at scale.

Part 2: Integrating Search Capabilities with Actions for Google Assistant, using GKE and Elasticsearch - Enhance the capabilities of a voice and text-based conversational interface by integrating it with a search and analytics engine.

Adding custom intelligence to Gmail with serverless on GCP - How to build powerful Gmail extensions using G Suite’s REST APIs, Cloud Functions and other fully managed services on Google Cloud Platform.

How to concatenate sharded files on Google Cloud Storage automatically using Cloud Functions - Learn how to concatenate sharded files on Google Cloud Storage automatically using Cloud Functions.

Dialogflow fulfillment with C# and App Engine - Using C# and App Engine for Dialogflow fulfillment.

Performing database migrations with Django on Google App Engine and Cloud SQL - Database migrations with Django on Google App Engine and Cloud SQL

Ephi — The ephemeral bot for Slack built with Google App Engine Task Queues - Ephi, an open source project written in Golang and deployed on Google App Engine.

How to kick off a Dataflow pipeline via Cloud Functions - How to structure your Dataflow pipeline for various use cases.

Spotify App review mining with R + Google Cloud Machine Learning - How to export data from iTunes with R and translating reviews by performing language processing with Google Cloud Machine Learning API before conducting basic sentiment analysis.

Convert CSV to Parquet using Hive on Cloud Dataproc - How to convert CSV to Parquet using Hive on Cloud Dataproc.

Programmatic Patent Searches Using Google’s BigQuery & Public Patent Data - Patent Searches Using Google’s BigQuery & Public Patent Data.

Scale Computing: Using hyperconverged infrastructure and cloud together for flexible DR - Scale HC3 Cloud Unity, a DRaaS solution that helps connect on-premises data and cloud infrastructures.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #148 Wellio, an awesome new platform that combines AI and healthy eating.

Kubernetes Podcast - #22 SIG-Node, with Dawn Chen