TWiGCP — “Cloud EKM, BeyondProd whitepaper, NetApp Cloud Volumes, and Cloud SQL maintenance alerts”

Here are the links from the latest This Week in Google Cloud video series:

• Transfer on-premises data to cloud easily
• New features in Cloud Run for Anthos GA

Other top GCP stories for this past week include :

• File storage made easier with NetApp Cloud Volumes, now GA (Google blog)
• Introducing more maintenance controls for Cloud SQL (Google blog)
• BeyondProd whitepaper discusses cloud-native security at Google (Google blog)
• Cloud External Key Manager (EKM) now in beta (Google blog)

From the “More Google Cloud Security news” department :

• Making your cloud more secure through Google Cloud partners (Google blog)
• Investing in the security of our API ecosystem: updates on the security assessment (Google blog)
• Binary Authorization for Borg: how Google verifies code provenance and implements code identity (cloud.google.com)

From the “because it’s this time of year” department :

• Cloud data analytics year in review, 2019 (Google blog)
• Top 2019 episodes of the Kubernetes Podcast (Google blog)
• 2019 cloud technology year in review (Google blog)

From the “weekly Cloud Run review” department :

• Cloud-Native Advantages of Moving Your ETL Process to Cloud Run (medium.com)
• Comparison: AWS Fargate vs. Google Cloud Run vs. Azure Container Instances (thenewstack.io)
• Configuring Cloud Run with Terraform (sethvargo.com)

From the “automate, optimize, and recover” department :

• Google Cloud templates for Terraform and Deployment Manager now available (Google blog)
• How to save on Google Compute Engine (Google blog)
• Warm Disaster Recovery for applications in Google Cloud (medium.com)

From the “weekly BigQuery review” department :

• Change management for cloud data warehouses (Google blog)
• Partition on any field with BigQuery (medium.com)

From the “Compliance and Trust” department :

• The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and you: Google Cloud’s commitment (Google blog)

From the “things to play with during the holidays” department :

• Weather, climate big data from NOAA now in cloud (Google blog)
• Google Cloud Spanner Dialect for Hibernate released (in.relation.to)
• Accelerating TensorFlow Lite on Qualcomm Hexagon DSPs (blog.tensorflow.org)
• New features for L4 Internal Load Balancer (Google blog)

From the “Cloud-Native” department :

• Patterns for scalable and resilient apps (cloud.google.com)
• Istio secure ingress (istiobyexample.dev)

From still my favorite “Customers and partners talk best about GCP” department :

• Spotify Machine Learning Platform Paved Road (labs.spotify.com)
• Batch data Kubernetes jobs with Recursion Pharmaceuticals — Stack Chat (youtube.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 274.0.0
• [GA] Pub/Sub no longer requires proof of ownership for push subscription URL domains
• [GA] Compute Engine custom image storage location
• [GA] BigQuery ML Pre-processing
• [GA] Cloud Spanner Single Region — Frankfurt
• [GA] Cloud IAM Troubleshooter
• [GA] GKE 1.15 is generally available for new clusters
• [GA] GKE maintenance windows and exclusions
• [GA] GKE on-prem version 1.2.0-gke.6
• [Beta] Extensible Service Proxy V2 Beta as an Endpoints API gateway for Cloud Functions and Cloud Run

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [YouTube] Yufeng’s AI Adventures : Using AutoML Natural Language for custom text classification| Getting started with Natural Language Processing: Bag of words
• [YouTube] Martin’s and Bret’s Serverless Toolbox : Cold starts: how to find them in your Cloud Run app |Cold starts: how to fix them in your Cloud Run app
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode #84 Monitoring, Metrics and M3, with Martin Mao and Rob Skillington (kubernetespodcast.com)

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That is all for this week!
-Alexis