TWiGCP — “Custom dashboarding, introducing Dataproc Metastore, and Confidential Computing partners”

Top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Cloud Monitoring improves custom dashboard creation (Google blog)
• Dataproc Metastore: Fully managed Hive metastore now in public preview (Google blog)
• Partners share thoughts on Confidential Computing (Google blog)
• New extensions for PostgreSQL for cloud database use (Google blog)
• Continuing our long-standing commitment to Kubernetes and CNCF (Google blog)

From the “And now for something completely different…” department :

• Welcome to the Museum of Modern Borgmon Art (Google blog)

From the “Applied ML, from Vaccination to baking, at any scale“ department :

• Introducing Google Cloud Sentiment Analysis: A Foundation for a Successful COVID-19 Vaccination Strategy (Google blog)
• Baking recipes made by AI (Google blog)
• Scaling machine learning predictions (Google blog)

From the “hybrid and multicloud with Anthos” department :

• Three ways Google Cloud delivers on hybrid and multicloud, today (Google blog)
• How Migrate for Anthos improves VM-to-container migration (Google blog)
• Logging and monitoring for Anthos attached clusters (cloud.google.com)

From the “Cloud Spanner, just right” department :

• Automatically right-size Spanner instances with the new Autoscaler (Google blog)

From the “ten days of Cloud Workflows” department :

• Day #10 — accessing built-in environment variables (glaforge.medium.com)

From the “up to 1 TB per month, no credit card required” department :

• Big data analytics in the cloud with free public datasets (Google blog)

From the “Latest Cloud Run enhancements and use-cases” department :

• Build and deploy an app to Cloud Run with a single command (Google blog)
• Configuring Cloud Run deployment previews (cloud.google.com)
• Serverless Vault with Cloud Run (github.com)
• Deploying to serverless platforms with GitHub Actions (Google blog)

From the “Security, Ops, and $$” department :

• Mitigate CVE-2020–8554 with Policy Controller (Google blog)
• Multiple network interfaces overview and examples | VPC (cloud.google.com)
• GCP IAM roles explained. When to use basic vs predefined vs… | by Adrien Walkowia (medium.com)
• Billing reports and Saved Cost Views | by Mark Mirchandani (medium.com)

From the “Pub/Sub message lifecycle and advanced topics” department :

• Things I wish I knew about Google Cloud Pub/Sub: Part 2 | by Alex Hong (medium.com)
• Things I wish I knew about Pub/Sub, Part 3 | by Tianzi Cai (medium.com)

From the “goodbye diesel generator” department :

• Cleaner data centers, batteries included (blog.google)

From the “inaugural community conference for Istio” department :

• IstioCon 2021 (events.istio.io)

From the “customers and partners solving real-world problems with GCP” department :

• Wellcome Sanger Institute runs Anthos on-prem (Google blog)
• How Rodan + Fields is running SAP Hybris and SAP ERP on Google Cloud (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 132 — Akri, with Kate Goldenrin (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Video] Running Kotlin on Google Cloud (youtube.com)
• [Video] Using the Kubernetes API (youtube.com)
• [Video] Securing a REST API with JWT, code (youtube.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 321.0.0
• [GA] Cloud Monitoring custom dashboards
• [GA] Two new Cloud Spanner Multi-Region Configurations — nam12 and eur6
• [GA] Cloud Armor named IP address lists
• [GA] Cloud SQL for MySQL, parallel replication
• [GA] Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL extensions (dblink, ip4r, prefix)
• [GA] Cloud logging set the region to store your logs data
• [GA] Kubernetes Engine Internal Ingress for Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing
• [GA] Cloud Dataproc CentOS 8 based 1.5 images
• [GA] Dataproc Workflow Timeout
• [GA] Cloud Armor third-party named IP address lists
• [GA] VPC DNS peering for private services access
• [GA] Compute Engine recommendations for committed use discounts
• [GA] Memorystore for Redis TLS encryption
• [GA] Cloud Task Queues no longer require App Engine app
• [GA] AI Platform TF 2.4.0 Deep Learning VM Images & Containers
• [GA] Vision API OCR On-Prem
• [Preview] Cloud Armor new WAF Rules (Method Enforcement, Scanner Detection, Protocol Attack, PHP Injection, Session Fixation)
• [Preview] Cloud Dataproc Cluster Start/Stop
• [Preview] Access to Google APIs and services using Private Service Connect
• [Preview] Google Cloud Armor Managed Protection Plus tier
• [Preview] AI Platform Prediction automatic scaling with GPUs

This week’s picture is “Tapestry”, from the “The Museum of Borgmon Abstract Art”. Check it out!

That is all for this week!
-Alexis