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News

Introducing Jib — build Java Docker images better - Jib, an open-source Java containerizer from Google that lets Java developers build containers using the Java tools developers know.

Predict your future costs with Google Cloud Billing cost forecast - Availability of a new cost forecast feature for Google Cloud Billing to know costs trends and how much you are projected to spend.

Introducing new Apigee capabilities to deliver business impact with APIs - It is now easier for API developers to access Google Cloud services via the Apigee Edge platform with new Apigee capabilities.

Articles, Tutorials

Using instance metadata in Cloud Dataproc initialization actions - How to use instance metadata in Cloud Dataproc initialization actions.

Verifying PostgreSQL backups made easier with new open-source tool - PostgreSQL Page Verification tool is a command-line tool to calculate and verify checksums for each data page. The tool is now available as open source code.

Google Home meets .NET containers using Dialogflow - Build a voice-driven app using Dialogflow and Google Cloud .NET libraries.

Deploy a Dockerized React app on GCloud App Engine - How to create a simple setup to deploy a Dockerized React App on Google App Engine.

Setting up Google Cloud with Kubernetes, Nginx Ingress and Let’s Encrypt (Certmanager) - Setting up Google Cloud with Kubernetes, Nginx Ingress.

Kubernetes: Routing Internal Services Through FQDN - How to make custom routes within Kubernetes cluster to simplify inter cluster communication.

Secure your Kubernetes Cluster running on Google cloud (features : out of the box) - How to secure your Kubernetes Cluster running on Google cloud.

Google Cloud Platform: Creating an Instance and Configuring DNS - Creating a standard Linux instance and walking through the steps to configure DNS.

Training and serving a realtime mobile object detector in 30 minutes with Cloud TPUs - Example of training an object detection model on Cloud TPUs with Tensorflow.

How to train a ResNet image classifier from scratch on TPUs on Cloud ML Engine - How to train a state-of-the-art image classification model on your own data using Google’s Cloud TPUs.

Measuring patent claim breadth using Google Patents Public Datasets - Analysing Patent public dataset and building machine learning model using GCP products.

Provisioning a Docker based Deep Learning workspace on Google Compute Engine - How to set-up a Docker based Deep Learning workspace on Google Compute Engine

Firestore Sub-Collections - Know about Firestore sub-collections.

Replicating Data from Firebase to Firestore with Cloud Function Triggers - Using Cloud Function Triggers to replicate data from Firebase to Firestore.

Search on Google Cloud Platform — Cloud Datastore - Implementation of search functionality on Google Cloud Platform along with Cloud Datastore as storage.

Envoy for Google Cloud Identity Aware Proxy - Setting up sample Envoy Proxy config to validate JWT authentication headers used by GCP Identity Aware Proxy.

Encrypting Stackdriver Logging sinks using Customer-Managed Encryption Keys for GCS - Set-up a Stackdriver Logging export to GCS using CMEK.

How to push serial console output logs to Stackdriver and set alerts in GCP - How to set alerts in GCP by pushing serial console output logs to Stackdriver.

Monitoring HTTP Latency with OpenCensus and Stackdriver - How to implement your own probe for monitoring HTTP Latency with OpenCensus by writing code in Go.

Breaking down Google Cloud costs by location (or anything else!) - Article explains tools to use to label GCP resources so their use can be collected and visualised.

Google Cloud Platform - The Good, Bad, and Ugly (It's Mostly Good) - Sharing personal experience using different aspects and products of Google Cloud Platform.

Google Cloud Platform Console Shortcuts - Google Cloud Platform Console Shortcuts to make easy navigation.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Cloud OnAir - Data analytics & machine learning - Cloud OnAir - Data analytics & machine learning

Cloud OnAir - IT infrastructure webinars - Cloud OnAir - IT infrastructure webinars

GCP Podcast - #135 VirusTotal with Emi Martínez. Learn more about how VirusTotal is helping to create a safer internet by providing tools and building a community for security researchers.

Kubernetes Podcast - Helm and its Charts to manage Kubernetes applications.