TWiGCP — “GKE Autopilot, Databricks & MongoDB partnerships, and quite a bit more”

Top GCP stories 📣 for this past week include :

• Introducing GKE Autopilot: a revolution in managed Kubernetes (Google blog)
• Databricks, Google Cloud provide data, analytics and AI together (Google blog)
• MongoDB and Google Extend Partnership To Drive Enterprise Cloud Modernization (Google blog)
• Modernizing materialized views in BigQuery (Google blog)
• Introducing schedule-based autoscaling for Compute Engine (Google blog)
• Service Directory is GA and adds automatic service registration (Google blog)
• Introducing Cloud Domains (Google blog)
• Introducing GKE multi-cluster services (Google blog)
• BigQuery drives faster queries in popular BI tools with BI Engine (Google blog)
• Twitter @GoogleCloudTech — new name, same crew

From the “keeping things tidy” department :

• Private Catalog for Google Cloud Marketplace supports Terraform (Google blog)
• Update Google Data Catalog Tags with Cloud Dataprep Metadata | by Victor Coustenoble (medium.com)

From the “understanding and using Google’s secret weapon — its network” department :

• Understanding Google Cloud network edge points (Google blog)
• Private Service Connect | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)

From the “Controlling cost” department :

• Stay informed by customizing your budgets (Google blog)
• Budgets: Customizing email addresses | by Mark Mirchandani (medium.com)

From the “Parallelizing and extending Workflows” department :

• Building serverless apps with Workflows and Connectors (Google blog)
• Parallel executions with Google Workflows | by guillaume blaquiere (medium.com)

From the “Cloud Run truly loves all programming languages” department :

• Ship your Go applications faster to Cloud Run with ko (Google blog)

From the “Dataproc — from a decision tree to data science at scale” department :

• Migrating Apache Hadoop to Dataproc: A decision tree (Google blog)
• Run data science at scale with Dataproc and Apache Spark (Google blog)

From the “ML models on Google Cloud, from convenient to high-performance” department :

• Scale model training in minutes with RAPIDS + Dask + NVIDIA GPUs (Google blog)
• How to use a Machine Learning Model from a Google Sheet using BigQuery ML (Google blog)

From the “more projects, metrics, and retention“ department :

• Increasing limits for three Cloud Monitoring features (Google blog)

From the “practice GKE troubleshooting with a sample app” department :

• How to find and resolve issues in your applications and infrastructure on GKE (Google blog)

From our “ever growing and rich community on Medium” department :

• Quickly Deploy Applications Using Terraform With Kubernetes on GCP | by MPL (medium.com)
• Full relational diagram for Ethereum public data on Google BigQuery | by Rif Kiamil (medium.com)
• Monitoring your Dataflow pipelines: an overview | by Jérémie Gomez (medium.com)
• Google Cloud Spanner: Stream Data from a Query to a Transaction in NodeJS | by Knut Olav Løite (medium.com)

From the “Architectural best practices” department :

• Framework for building a configuration driven data lake using Data Fusion and Composer (Google blog)
• Shifting left on security (cloud.google.com)
• Designing multi-tenant architectures (cloud.google.com)
• Managing cloud infrastructure using kpt (cloud.google.com)
• A new Google Cloud VMware Engine networking whitepaper (Google blog)

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

• Cash App uses Google Cloud AI + NIVIDA GPUs to power mobile payments (Google blog)
• Why Sabre Corporation takes advantage of Prisma Cloud Compute gmon Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Conversational AI with Dialogflow and Apigee API Management (Google blog)
• BBVA forms partnership with Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)
• Major League Baseball (MLB) Case Study (cloud.google.com)

From the “🔊 all things multimedia 🎥” department :

• [YouTube] Introducing GKE Autopilot (youtube.com)
• [YouTube] Secret Manager YouTube series (youtube.com)
• [YouTube] How to choose the right database for application scalability (youtube.com)
• [New Podcast] New Cloud Security Podcast by Google is here (cloud.google.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode 247 — Cloud SQL Insights with Nimesh Bhagat (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode 248 — Cloud Spanner Revisited with Dilraj Kaur and Christoph Bussler (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 138— Multi-Cluster Services, with Jeremy Olmsted-Thompson (kubernetespodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 139— GKE Autopilot, with Yochay Kiriaty (kubernetespodcast.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 329.0.0
• [GA] Hierarchical firewall policies overview
• [GA] BigQuery materialized views
• [GA] Cloud Composer support for CMEK
• [GA] Optimal Recommendations for Compute Engine committed use discounts
• [Preview] Migrating projects (across orgs, self-serve)
• [Preview] Kubernetes 1.20 available in the GKE Rapid channel
• [Preview] Secret Manager event notifications
• [Preview] Firestore connector for Workflows
• [Preview] BigQuery BI Engine SQL Interface
• [Preview] Cloud IAM Simulating policy changes

This week’s picture is taken from the Autopilot launch material

That is all for this week!
-Alexis