Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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As the year ends, it's time for recaps or perhaps to complete commitments of writing articles, because there 2 series of articles alone in this issue.

News

Knative: bringing serverless to Kubernetes everywhere - GKE serverless add-on to support Knative 0.2.

Announcing Cloud DNS forwarding: Unifying hybrid cloud naming - New forwarding capability to Cloud DNS, GCP managed DNS service.

Cost Management - Collection of tools for monitoring, controlling, and optimizing your costs.

ManagedKube launches on GKE Marketplace at KubeCon - Launch on GKE’s Marketplace at KubeCon.

Expanding our partnership with Palo Alto Networks to simplify cloud security and accelerate cloud adoption - Expanding GCP partnership with Palo Alto Networks to help more enterprises increase control of their own security in the cloud.

Google Cloud Platform now IRAP-certified by Australian Cyber Security Center - Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has achieved Information Security Registered Assessors Program (IRAP) certification for a subset of services by the Australian Cyber Security Center, a part of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD).

Articles, Tutorials

Exploring container security: How containers enable passive patching and a better model for supply chain security - Exploring container security and passive patching.

Exploring container security: This year, it’s all about security. Again. - What changed this year for Kubernetes security.

Deep reinforcement learning on GCP: using hyperparameter tuning and Cloud ML Engine to best OpenAI Gym games - How to train many jobs in parallel using Google Cloud’s hyperparameter tuning service with ML Engine.

Accelerate your app delivery with Kubernetes and Istio on GKE - With Istio on GKE, you get granular visibility, security, and resilience for your containerized applications, with a dead-simple add-on that works out-of-the-box with all your existing applications.

Cloud Native Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Istio and Knative - How to deploy the Kubernetes, Istio and Knative stack.

Leveraging Google Compute Engine for Low-cost GPU Rendering (and Other Fun Exercises in Patience) - Low-cost GPU Rendering with Google Compute Engine.

Now you can train TensorFlow machine learning models faster and at lower cost on Cloud TPU Pods - Using Cloud TPU Pods to train TensorFlow machine learning models.

CI/CD: Google Cloud Build — Custom Scripts - Building CI/CD with Google Cloud Build.

Continuous Delivery in Google Cloud Platform — Cloud Build with Compute Engine - 2nd part of a series written to tackle Continuous Delivery in Google Cloud Platform.

Using a private network in Google Cloud VPC - Series of posts covering security on Google Cloud for data engineers.

Mastering Google Cloud Build Config Syntax - Tips on how to write more readable and maintainable config files for Cloud Build.

Serverless Continuous Integration and OTA update flow using Google Cloud Build and Arduino - How to build your firmware and sent to your devices automatically using Google Cloud Platform.

How to perform and schedule firestore backups with Google Cloud Platform and NodeJS - Taking firestore backups on GCP.

Web Metrics with OpenCenus and Stackdriver - Article describes an approach to measure and understand application's health as experienced by the population of users of a web application in near realtime.

Build a blog application on Google App Engine: Comment module (part 7) - How to build a small blog application in Node.js using the Google Datastore and deploy it to Google App Engine.

Taking a practical approach to BigQuery cost monitoring - Data Studio dashboard which reports the daily BigQuery spending split by users at a particular organization.

How to tune a BigQuery ML classification model to achieve a desired precision or recall - Article explains tuning ML model in BigQuery on flights delay prediction model.

Enabling data accessibility at 7-Eleven (with Data Studio and BigQuery) - Using BigQuery and Data Studio to visualize KPIs for retailer

Big Data Analytics with Java and Python, using Cloud Dataproc, Google’s Fully-Managed Spark and Hadoop Service - Exploring Cloud Dataproc’s ability to quickly and efficiently run Spark jobs written in Java and Python.

Using Kubeflow for Financial Time Series: Part II — Leveraging GPUs on demand - Run a TF-job on a GPU to reduce training time.

How To Limit Access To Deep Learning VM to One User Only - Article explains how to limit access to a Deep Learning VM to only one user.

Handling Sensitive Data on the Google Cloud Platform - How Google Cloud machine learning services can be used to identify and mask sensitive data in unstructured datasets.

Enterprise IT can move up or out (or both) - Different approaches for migrating to the cloud.

Security on Google Cloud for Data Engineers - 7 part series of articles related to security for data engineering audience in mind.

Readers’ choice: Top Google Cloud Platform stories of 2018 - Most popular this year on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) blog.

Finding stuff about GCP - List of sources, if you're starting with Google Cloud Platform.

Using GCP there’s a checklist for that! - 9 part series of articles containing detailed checklists of things you need to evaluate & prepare for deploying your application to Google Cloud Platform.

How I Cleared 3 Google Cloud Certifications in 3 Weeks - Resources and approach to help you prepare for GCP certifications.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #159 End of Year Wrap-up

Kubernetes Podcast - #33 Envoy, with Matt Klein

AutoML Vision and Designing Product Experiences at Google (Google Cloud AI Huddle)