TWiGCP — “Automating OS security, GKE surge upgrades, and a technical Anthos ebook”

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Protect your running VMs with new OS patch management service (Google blog)
• How GKE surge upgrades improve operational efficiency (Google blog)
• gRPC, meet Kotlin (Google blog)
• Google Cloud Covid-19 Support for Governments (Google blog)
• How We’re Helping with COVID-19 Academic Research (Google blog)

From the “if 4 words or fewer is a bit terse for you” department :

• Google Cloud Platform Services Summary (cloud.google.com)

From the “Anthos for hands-on folks” department :

• Anthos under the hood (an ebook for Practitioners) (inthecloud.withgoogle.com)
• A multi-cluster gRPC architecture on GKE (medium.com)
• Getting Started with Artifact Registry: Deploying to Google Kubernetes Engine (medium.com)

From the ‘Load balancers & Infrastructure” department :

• Choosing the right load balancer in Google Cloud (medium.com)
• Application Capacity Optimizations with Global Load Balancing (medium.com)
• Sending notifications for Google Cloud events (cloud.google.com)
• Google Cloud Inter-region latency and throughput (cloud.google.com)
• Instrumenting Cloud Spanner Go Applications with OpenCensus (medium.com)

From the “ML & Insights” department :

• Connect to Splunk with a Dataflow template (Google blog)
• Automation of Data Wrangling and Machine Learning on Google Cloud (medium.com)
• How to find the interior centroid of US counties using BigQuery GIS (medium.com)
• Productionising ML Projects with Google BigQuery and PySpark: Predicting Hotel Cancellations (towardsdatascience.com)
• Improving Audio Quality in Duo with WaveNetEQ (Google AI Blog)
• On-demand small batch predictions with Cloud Run and Embedded-tf (medium.com)
• 9 Common Mistakes with Cloud Data Fusion (medium.com)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] Debugging in production with Stackdriver Debugger — Stack Doctor (youtube.com)
• [Video] Artifact Registry: Containerizing and deploying Java applications (youtube.com)
• [Coding along video] Learn ES Modules in Node with Myles Borins (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #99 — kpt, with Morten Torkildsen (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode #216 — Rugby and ML with Capgemini (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Oracle Groundbreakers Podcast #374: Kubernetes and Beyond: An Interview with Kelsey Hightower (podbean.com)

From the “Beta, GA, or what?” department :

• [GA] Cloud SDK 289.0.0
• [GA] Dataflow SQL
• [GA] Cloud Spanner Backup and Restore
• [GA] OS patch management
• [GA] Cloud External Key Manager
• [GA] Cloud CDN Signed Cookies
• [GA] GKE Ingress
• [GA] BigQuery Reservations
• [GA] Viewing and applying idle VM recommendations
• [GA] External load-balancer HTTP Rewrites & Redirects
• [GA] Event Thread Detection
• [GA] Access Approval
• [GA] VPC Network performance dashboard
• [GA] View and download prices for Google’s cloud services
• [Beta] Document AI
• [Beta] Firewall Insights
• [Beta] VPC accessible services
• [Beta] AutoML Translation — Evaluating models
• [Beta] Cross-project Committed Use Discounts
• [Beta] Analyzing Cloud IAM policies
• [Beta] VPC Service Controls Bulk API

This week’s picture is the new ebook for Anthos practitioners

That is all for this week!
-Alexis