Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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More and more use cases are described for Cloud Functions as well as StackDriver. 

News

Go 1.11 is now available on App Engine - Beta availability of the Go 1.11 runtime for the App Engine standard environment.

Introducing Stackdriver as a data source for Grafana - Beta release of the Stackdriver data source for Grafana.

Get more control over your Compute Engine resources with new Cloud IAM features - Introduction of two new Cloud IAM features, resource-level IAM and IAM conditions, to help better manage security and access control in Google Compute Engine.

Articles, Tutorials

Cloud NAT: deep dive into our new network address translation service - Advantages of Cloud NAT vs other NAT offerings.

Firewall rules logging: a closer look at our new network compliance and security tool - With firewall rule logging, its easy to track every connection that has been allowed or denied in VM instances, in near-real-time.

Enhancing Spinnaker’s Kubernetes support to ease app deployments - Understanding CI/CD for Kubernetes with Spinnaker.

Best practices for building Kubernetes Operators and stateful apps - Best practices for writing your own operator to manage a Kubernetes application.

Why Istio - How to get started with Istio.

How to setup a Kubernetes Cluster that can connect to SQL on GCP using Private IP’s - Setting up a Kubernetes Cluster that can connect to SQL on GCP using Private IP’s.

Deploy Keycloak to Kubernetes cluster on GCP - How to deploy Keycloak (open source identity and access management solution) to Kubernetes cluster on GCP.

Simplifying Granular Access Control on Kubernetes (GKE) Using IAM and RBAC - Access control of GKE using Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM) and RBAC.

Mender and Cloud IoT facilitate robust device update management - Tutorial and reference integration to easily detect issues and the ability to remediate IoT devices with Cloud IoT Core and Mender.

Serverless from the ground up: Building a simple microservice with Cloud Functions (Part 1) - Easy way to build a custom content management system using Google Cloud Functions.

Using Puppeteer in Google Cloud Functions - Article goes through setting up Puppeteer (headless Chrome) and using in Cloud Functions.

Creating Google Cloud Functions Running Python - Comparison of Google Cloud Functions with AWS Lambda on Python example.

How to publish a Spring Boot app (with a database) on the Google Cloud Platform - Publishing a Spring Boot app with a database on the Google Cloud Platform.

Using Chrome Dev Tools with Google Cloud - Article goes through steps of setting Cloud Storage for serving static content of a website and investigating results with Chrome Dev tools.

Adding Social Login to your ASP.NET core 2.1 Google Cloud Platform Application - How to add Social Login to ASP.NET core 2.1 Google Cloud Platform Application.

Mining Your Actions History - Exploring Dialogflow's feature called History.

Application performance management with Stackdriver - Managing application performance with Stackdriver.

Reduce latency with Stackdriver Trace - How to reduce latency with Stackdriver Trace.

GPU Monitoring Agent For GCP StackDriver - Stack Driver Monitoring Agent that reports average GPU utilization and average memory GPU utilization.

Yo dawg, I heard you like builders, so I put a builder in your builder so you can build your build - Using Cloud Build, you can create a docker image and then use that image as a custom step in the same build.

Continuous Integration with Google Application Engine and Travis - Tips for continuous Integration with Google Application Engine and Travis.

Full CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Octopus and Google Cloud - Build CI/CD Pipeline with Jenkins, Octopus and Google Cloud.

How to Build an Image Search Application Using Cloud Vision API? - Building an Image Search Application Using Cloud Vision API.

Transform Voice of Customer to Insights by using Google Cloud APIs in 30 Minutes. - Explore opportunities to discover insights from unstructured data like customer service calls using Google Cloud APIs.

spanner-cli, the Cloud Spanner command line interface - Interactive command line tool for controlling Spanner databases.

Google's BigQuery Brings GIS Into The Petascale Era - How BigQuery is making difference for big data analysis.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #151 Java & Jib with Patrick Flynn and Mike Eltsufin

Kubernetes Podcast - #25 GKE Container-Native Load Balancing, with Ines Envid and Neha Pattan

Puppetize Live San Francisco - Puppet + Google Cloud: Migrating to the Cloud with Puppet