TWiGCP — “Cloud Tasks, private CloudSQL, K8S and TF releases, and new support models”

[Beta] Announcing Cloud Tasks, a task queue service for App Engine flex and second generation runtimes (Google blog) More App Engine services being promoted to top-level products. This one, just like Cloud Scheduler, enables effective cloud-native patterns. #taskqueues

[Beta] We’re announcing a new connection option, private networking beta, making connecting to Cloud SQL from applications in Google Cloud easier and even more secure (Google blog). Why go through the public Internet when you can stay private? We’re glad you asked!

Digging into Kubernetes 1.12 (Google blog)

TensorFlow Release 1.11.0 (github.com)

Launching new GCP Support models: Role-Based and Enterprise (Google blog). This includes flexible role assignments built around IAM.

From the “Too much automation and too little testing had me screw up a few links last week” department :

• A New TensorFlow Hub Web Experience (medium.com)
• [Beta] Using Container-native Load Balancing (Google documentation)
• Introducing Data Transfer Project: an open source platform promoting universal data portability (Google blog)
• Safety-first AI for autonomous data centre cooling and industrial control (deepmind.com)
• Sidecars and DaemonSets: Battle of containerization patterns (wecode.wepay.com)
• GKE On-Prem (chrislovecnm.com)

From the “how-to” department :

• Adding custom intelligence to Gmail with serverless on GCP (Google blog)
• A quick and easy way to set up an end-to-end IoT solution on Google Cloud Platform (Google blog)
• Deploying a Python serverless function in minutes with GCP (medium.com)
• Tweets, pipelines, Google Cloud, and poetry — how did I end up here! (medium.com)
• Simplifying ML predictions with Google Cloud Functions (Google blog)
• Hello Istio Codelab (with Google Kubernetes Engine) — Updated to Istio 1.0! (g.co/codelabs/cloud)

From the “getting your feet wet with TensorFlow.js” department :

• Getting Started with TensorFlow.js (youtube.com)
• Draw and classify digits (0–9) in a browser using machine learning (modded to use tensorflow.js) (github.com)

From the “Spring Cloud GCP” department :

• Bootiful GCP: To Production! (8/8) (spring.io)
• Bootiful GCP: Spring Cloud Stream with Google Cloud Pub/Sub (springuni.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 218.0.0
• [GA] GCP Support models: Role-Based and Enterprise
• [GA] Viewing Docker event logs in journald and in Stackdriver
• [GA] Bigtable Key Visualizer
• [GA] Enable/disable firewall rules
• [Beta] Firewall Rules Logging

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Podcast] Infrastructure Monitoring with Mark Carter (softwareengineeringdaily.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast #148 — Wellio with Sivan Aldor-Noiman and Erik Andrejko (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast #22 — SIG-Node, with Dawn Chen (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Video] Getting Started with TensorFlow.js (youtube.com)
• [Video] Cloud MemoryStore for Redis and OpenCensus (youtube.com)

This week’s picture is taken from the “Adding custom intelligence to Gmail with serverless on GCP” post. #GSuiteGCP

That is all for this week!
-Alexis