Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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After KubeCon EU there are announcements regarding GKE, otherwise cocktail of topics in this issue.

News

Putting the ‘ease’ in Kubernetes with latest enhancements to GKE - GKE is more useable with support for release channels, Windows Server Containers, and Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring.

Application management made easier with Kubernetes Operators on GCP Marketplace - Operators can make it easier to build and deploy applications on Kubernetes, and several are available on GCP Marketplace.

Cloud Run: Bringing serverless to containers - Cloud Run for serverless containers includes new metrics, supports Cloud SQL, and is available from new GCP regions.

Delivering end-to-end data analytics and data management solutions with Informatica - We’re extending our strategic partnership with Informatica to help more enterprises take advantage of hybrid and multi-cloud data management solutions.

Articles, Tutorials

Building the cloud-native future at Google Cloud - Some of the cloud-native open-source projects tied to Kubernetes that Google Cloud is working on.

Google Cloud networking in depth: Cloud Load Balancing deconstructed - Take a deeper look at the Google Cloud networking load balancing portfolio.

Got hybrid? Getting started with hybrid patterns and practices - Get tips and best practices on moving to a hybrid cloud model, with some workloads on-premises and some on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Optimize your organization’s cloud journey with a Cloud Center Of Excellence - Google Cloud Professional Services published a white paper on building a Cloud Center of Excellence to expedite your cloud migration.

Canary Releases with Traefik on GKE at HolidayCheck - Using Traefik on GKE to split traffic across deployments.

How to manually install and configure GitLab Runners on GKE - The article describes how to setup GitLab Runner on GKE.

Using Multiple Google Managed Certificate with single Kubernetes Ingress - Using multiple managed certificates on GKE from the same Ingress.

HTTPS with Cert-Manager on GKE - Using Cert Manager to obtain certificates for GKE cluster.

Kubernetes deployment on Google Compute Engine using Terraform - In case you don't want to use GKE but instead setup your own Kubernetes cluster with Terraform.

Analyzing Custom Retention Cohorts Using BigQuery and Google Analytics for Firebase - Retention is a stat a lot of app developers care deeply about; after all, if you’re making an app that your users keep coming back to week…

Automatic oauth2: Using Cloud Scheduler and Tasks to call Google APIs - Using credentials in Cloud Scheduler.

Automatic OIDC: Using Cloud Scheduler, Tasks, and PubSub to make authenticated calls to Cloud Run… - Examples of how to configure Cloud Scheduler, Cloud Tasks and Cloud PubSub to emit access tokens to outbound calls.

Google Cloud Run on Rails: a real life example (Part 1: preparing the ground) - 4 part series about deploying a real-life Rails application in production with Google Cloud Run.

Preparing your Django Application for Google Cloud Run - Deploying Django application on Cloud Run.

Using Cloud Run as a webhook for Actions on Google - Cloud Run is a new product for Google Cloud Platform that makes it easier to run your application in the cloud as a container.

Google Container Registry statistics from GCS access_logs - Sample flow to extract Google Container Registry usage statistics (image push/pull counts, analytics, etc).

Kafka from zero to hero: zero-downtime Kafka migration - Description of Kafka migration process from Kubernetes to Google Compute Engine.

Deconstructing Chatbots: Understanding Fulfillment by integrating Dialogflow with Google Calendar - The article describes how Dialogflow connects with backend systems to provide rich and dynamic responses to users questions.

IoT Telemetry Collection using Google Protocol Buffers, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, and MongoDB Atlas - Collect IoT sensor telemetry using Google Protocol Buffers over HTTPS, serverless Google Cloud Functions, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. Store sensor data in MongoDB Atlas on GCP.

Building a Data Lake on Google Cloud Platform with CDAP - Using CDAP (Cask Data Application Platform) on GCP.

Scheduling BigQuery using Cloud Scheduler & Cloud Build - Scheduling BigQuery queries with Cloud Scheduler and Cloud Build.

Game of Thrones Twitter Sentiment with Keras, Apache Beam, BigQuery and PubSub - End to end solution to analyze Tweets using GCP products.

New York Taxi data set analysis - Creating Machine Learning model based on BigQuery's New York Taxi drives dataset.

Hyperparameter Tuning On Google Cloud Platform With Scikit-Learn - Using Hyperparameter tuning feature on ML Engine.

How to build a wide-and-deep model using Keras in TensorFlow 2.0 - Using Feature columns with the Keras Functional API

Forseti intelligent agents: an open-source anomaly detection module - Description of how Forseti (collection of open-source tools) detects suspicious firewall rules.

What makes Google Cloud Platform unique compared to Azure and Amazon - Thoughts about where Google Cloud is heading.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #178 The Linux Foundation with Chris Aniszczyk

Kubernetes Podcast - #54 Tech, Life, and KubeCon EU, with Bryan Liles