TWiGCP — “Introducing Apigee X, HPC VMs, Data Fusion replication, and Assured Workloads”

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

• Introducing VM Manager: Operate large Compute Engine fleets with ease
• Bare Metal Solution: new regions, new servers, and new certifications
• Database observability for developers: introducing Cloud SQL Insights
• Respond to customers faster and more accurately with Dialogflow CX

Other top GCP stories for this past week include :

• Introducing real-time data integration for BigQuery with Cloud Data Fusion (Google blog)
• Apigee X: Google Cloud’s More Powerful API Management Platform (Google blog)
• Compliance with confidence: Introducing Assured Workloads Support (Google blog)
• New HPC VM images are tuned for demanding workloads (Google blog)

From the “VPCs, DNS, IPs, and cables, oh my!” department :

• How to use Cloud DNS peering in a Shared VPC environment (Google blog)
• Composer, Dataflow and Private IP addresses | by Neil Kolban (medium.com)
• Limiting public IPs on Google Cloud (Google blog)
• Google’s Dunant subsea cable is now ready for service (Google blog)

From the “controlling your costs and quotas” department :

• How to save money when using cloud databases (Google blog)
• Setting up a Google Cloud Budget | Mark Mirchandani (medium.com)
• How to programmatically manage quotas in Google Cloud (Google blog)

From the “just in time for the Australian Open” department :

• Can machine learning make you a better athlete? (Google blog)

From the “multicloud, hybrid, and secure” department :

• What are my hybrid and multicloud deployment options with Anthos? (Google blog)
• How BeyondCorp Enterprise supports multicloud applications and resources (Google blog)
• How to federate multiple GKE clusters with Anthos Service Mesh (Google blog)

From the “multicloud through automation” department :

• Automating database migration on GCP with Ansible and Terraform | by Safwene Ben Aich (medium.com)

From the “securing access and image layers” department :

• The Misadventures of One Cloud Function | by Natalie Godec (medium.com)
• Centrally Managing Artifact Registry Container Image Vulnerabilities on Google Cloud: Part One | by Dan Peachey (medium.com)

From the “ML Practitioners productiveness” department :

• Increase your productivity using PyTorch Lightning (Google blog)
• Continuous model evaluation with BigQuery ML, Stored Procedures, and Cloud Scheduler (Google blog)

From the “Any kind of practitioner candies” department :

• Let’s compare the cloud shells offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (seroter.com)
• Search and browse Google Cloud code samples (Google blog)

From the “Hands-on Cloud Workflows” department :

• Pic-a-daily: Lab 6 — Orchestration with Workflows (codelabs.developers.google.com)
• Day #13 with Cloud Workflows: Logging with Cloud Logging | by Guillaume Laforge (medium.com)
• Day #14 with Cloud Workflows: Subworkflows | by Guillaume Laforge (medium.com)

From the “time to get to the metal” department :

• Tensorflow 2.4 for TPUs released (kaggle.com)
• Dataflow support for GPUs | Google Cloud (cloud.google.com)

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

• Twitter Expands Strategic Partnership (cloud.google.com)
• Customers who make data sing and analytics product news to cure your data FOMO (Google blog)

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Video] Introducing Migrate for Anthos (youtube.com)
• [Video] Introduction to Apigee X (youtube.com)
• [Podcast] GCP Podcast Episode 245 — Botcopy with Dustin Dye and Alex Seegers (gcppodcast.com)
• [Podcast] Kubernetes Podcast Episode 135 — Backstage, with Lee Mills and Matt Clarke (kubernetespodcast.com)

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

• [GA] Cloud SDK 326.0.0
• [GA] IAP & Internal HTTP(S) Load Balancing
• [GA] PayPal as a form of payment
• [GA] Internal TCP/UDP LB- Multiple forwarding rules with the single IP
• [GA] GKE Autoscaler, release channel, and machine type updates
• [GA] Cloud Scheduler Deduplication headers
• [GA] Cloud Build support for Secret Manager
• [GA] AI Platform Training use of E2, N2 or C2 machines
• [GA] Cloud Functions security level feature for HTTP vs HTTPS
• [1.8.0] Cloud Code for VS Code
• [21.2.1] Cloud Code for IntelliJ
• [Preview] Container Registry on-demand image scanning
• [Preview] Security Command Center new anomalous IP geolocation and anomalous user agent detectors
• [Preview] Data Fusion continuous data replication from DBs to BigQuery

This week’s picture is the new UI for searching the 1200+ code samples you now have access to

That is all for this week!
-Alexis