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Overload of Kubernetes news and articles in this issue.

News

Google Kubernetes Engine 1.10 is generally available and ready for the enterprise - General availability of Google Kubernetes Engine 1.10, which lays the foundation for new features to enable greater enterprise usage.

Introducing Shared VPC for Google Kubernetes Engine - Shared Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is available in beta to help Google Kubernetes Engine tackle scale and reliability needs of container networking for enterprise workloads.

Beyond CPU: horizontal pod autoscaling with custom metrics in Google Kubernetes Engine - Beta release of Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) on Kubernetes Engine 1.10, you can configure your deployments to scale horizontally in a variety of ways.

Get higher availability with Regional Persistent Disks on Google Kubernetes Engine - Beta launch of Regional Persistent Disks for Kubernetes Engine.

Better cost control with Google Cloud Billing programmatic notifications - Newly available programmatic budget notifications to Google Cloud Billing will help in cost control.

Stackdriver brings powerful alerting capabilities to the condition editor UI - Beta version of Stackdriver new alerting condition configuration UI.

Google Cloud Platform and Confluent partner to deliver a managed Apache Kafka service - Confluent Cloud, a fully-managed streaming service based on Apache Kafka is available.

Cloud ML Engine adds Cloud TPU support for training - Cloud Machine Learning Engine (ML Engine) offers the option to accelerate training with Cloud TPUs as a beta feature.

Dialogflow adds versioning and other new features to help enterprises build vibrant conversational experiences - Dialogflow adds versioning and other new features.

Google Cloud named a leader in latest Forrester Research Public Cloud Platform Native Security Wave - Forrester Research has named Google Cloud as one of just two leaders in The Forrester WaveTM: Public Cloud Platform Native Security (PCPNS), Q2 2018 report.

Articles, Tutorials

Kubernetes best practices: mapping external services - Kubernetes best practices with respect to mapping external services.

Trillian on Google Cloud Platform - Developing Trillian, open source project and in making in straightforward to deploy to Kubernetes.

Publishing Google Cloud Container Registry Images from Gitlab CI - Publish Docker images from a Gitlab CI runner to a private Google Cloud Container Registry.

Ethereum on Google Cloud Platform - Easier ways to run Ethereum on GCP using Container-Optimized OS, Kubernetes Engine.

Manage Google Compute Engine with Node.js - An Intro to the Node.js Client Library for Compute Engine.

Setup VM instance on Google Cloud Compute Engine - Setup Ubuntu 16.04 LEMP server with VestaCP on GCE.

Google Cloud cheatsheet: share VM images - How to share VM images on GCP.

$36k Google App Engine RCE - Story how one student found security vulnerability in Google App Engine.

Apollo GraphQL Server on Google App Engine in under 5 minutes! - Apollo GraphQL Server up and running on Google App Engine (GAE).

Get Laravel Production-Ready in the Google App Engine - Important tunings to get your Laravel application production-ready in the Google App Engine.

Deploy Docker containers in Google Cloud Platform - How to deploy Docker containers (boxes) to Google Cloud Platform.

Monitoring End-to-End Message Latency with Stackdriver - A simple system for monitoring the end-to-end latency of asynchronous messages with Stackdriver.

How to train Machine Learning models in the cloud using Cloud ML Engine - Training Machine Learning models in the cloud using Cloud ML Engine.

Service Accounts on Google Cloud Platform - Overview about Service Accounts which is often used feature in development on Google Cloud Platform.

Leverage OwnCloud To Create Custom Collaboration Using Google Cloud Storage For Large Enterprises - Leverage OwnCloud with GCP, OwnCloud is an advanced, open source platform that helps in collaborating files securely.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #128 Decision Intelligence with Cassie Kozyrkov. Data science, analytics, machine learning and statistical inference, in relation to decision intelligence.

Kubernetes Podcast - #4 Stackdriver Kubernetes Monitoring.

Cloud OnAir: Build Your First Serverless Application With Google Cloud Functions - Build Your First Serverless Application With Google Cloud Functions.

Cloud OnAir: Building a Serverless Slack Chatbot with Google Cloud Functions - Building a Serverless Slack Chatbot with Google Cloud Functions.