Google Cloud Platform Newsletter

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Runtimes for Cloud Functions are GA, there are interesting articles regarding networking related topics, as well as Cloud Run use cases.

News

Efficiently scale ML and other compute workloads on NVIDIA’s T4 GPU, now generally available - NVIDIA’s T4 GPUs is now generally available in Google Cloud Platform regions around the world.

Your favorite runtimes, now generally available on Cloud Functions - Python, Go and Node.js are now supported runtimes on Cloud Functions.

Cloud rendering platform Zync Render gets a major update - Zync Render 2.0 consists of a complete Google-native rewrite of the application, providing benefits such as faster job start-up time, increased compute scalability, and several other new features that users have identified as critical to workflows.

Making API development faster with new Apigee Extensions - New Apigee Extensions let you manage APIs through a new range of Google Cloud services, including Compute Engine, Cloud ML Engine and BigQuery.

AI Platform Notebooks/VMs Release M25 - Improvements and updates for AI Platform.

Articles, Tutorials

Getting started with Identity Platform - Take a deeper look at how to use Identity Platform to add identity and access management functionality to your apps and services.

Google Cloud networking in depth: Simplify routing between your VPCs with VPC peering - Google Cloud networking now lets you automatically share routes between peered VPCs.

Using VPC Service Controls and the Cloud Storage Transfer Service to move data from S3 to Cloud Storage - You can move AWS S3 data into Google Cloud Storage buckets with the Transfer Service, plus add VPC Service Controls for added security.

Protect your Google Cloud Instances with Firewall Rules - Explanation of how firewall rules work with Compute Engine instances.

Private Access to GCP APIs through VPN Tunnels - This tutorial demonstrates how to use APIs for Google Cloud Platform services from an external network, such as on-premises private network or another cloud provider’s network to access GCP services without using public IP addresses.

Terraformer - CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform).

Terraform “Assume Role” and service Account impersonation on Google Cloud - Using impersonated service accounts with Terraform.

Export your Google Cloud instances in one command - Scrip to export GCE disks into various formats.

Serverless on Kubernetes with Knative - Totorial goes through creating Google Kubernetes Cluster and deploying Knative application.

Using Cloud Run service as async worker - Process of deploying private Cloud Run service as Async Task Worker

App Engine Flex || Cloud Run - Deploying containerized apps 3 ways on GCP.

Google Cloud Run or how to run your static website in 5 minutes and much more - Using Cloud Run to deploy a static website in a Docker container.

GPG stream encryption and decryption on Google Cloud Functions and Cloud Run - This article shows how to deploy a GPG Encryption and Decryption functions that read in a file in GCS and performs the named operations against the source file provided.

Event Driven Security on Google Cloud Platform - How to use Stackdriver logging events to trigger Google Cloud Functions to protect your cloud infrastructure.

Using Google APIs in an App Engine Application with Node.js - The article explains how to set and use Google APIs in App Engine NodeJS runtime.

Moving your cron job to the cloud with Google Cloud Functions - Example of migrating cron job from server to Google Cloud.

Upload/Download files from a browser with GCS Signed URLs and Signed Policy Documents - On the example of small javascript application upload/download files with GCS Signed URLs and Signed Policy Documents is demonstrated.

Python and Stackdriver Logging - Example of using synchronous / asynchronous Stackdriver logging in Python.

One (new) thing you need to know about Google Cloud Bigtable - Comparison and benchmarking of ScyllaDB and Cloud Bigtable

Principles and best practices for data governance in the cloud - The white paper which outlines best practices and guidelines for organizations to establish data governance in a cloud-first world.

Profiling Dataflow Pipelines - The article describes methods to investigate slow Dataflow pipelines.

A Database Migration Story: 99% Cost Reduction and 100% Hindsight - How BetterCloud’s Data Team executed a long database migration from MS Azure SQL Server to Bigquery.

Empower your AI Platform-trained serverless endpoints with machine learning on Google Cloud Functions - Using Cloud Functions as API endpoints for machine learning models.

Study smart for your Google Cloud Platform Data Engineer Certification Exam - How not to prepare for GCP Data Engineer exam!

GitLab’s journey from Azure to GCP - Description of Gitlab's migration process from Azure to GCP.

Slides, Videos, Audio

GCP Podcast - #175 MongoDB with Andrew Davidson

Kubernetes Podcast - #51 KeyBank, with Gabe Jaynes. KeyBank were an early adopter of containers, and Gabe talks about the reasons they undertook this transformation.