TWiGCP — “Introducing Cloud Filestore, GitLab detailing migration to GCP, and a new LA cloud region”

Open always wins in the end, “Why we believe in an open cloud” (Google blog)

Filestore (with an L) is file storage as a service from Google Cloud, — “New Cloud Filestore service brings GCP users high-performance file storage” (Google blog)

GCP is coming to LA this summer — “Google Cloud for Media and Entertainment Industry” (Google blog)

Meanwhile, Kubernetes sticks to its release cadence this time with version 1.11 and provides in-cluster load balancing. Also, the CoreDNS plugin is now GA (kubernetes.io)

Quite a bit of technical meat in this post — “We’re moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform” (about.gitlab.com)

From the “GCP stuff you should probably know” department :

• “Best Practices for Enterprise Organizations” is a list of great resources for new and existing business using GCP. Check out in particular the “Risk management” and “Billing and cost attribution” sections (Google Cloud Documentation)
• Tools for authoring and serving codelabs (github.com). What powers g.co/codelabs.

From the “getting the best out of GCP” department :

• How to connect Stackdriver to external monitoring (Google blog)
• [beta] Protect your Compute Engine resources with keys managed in Cloud Key Management Service (Google blog)
• No localhost? No problem! Using Google Cloud Shell as my full time development environment (medium.com)

From the “this week in AI” department :

• Scalable Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation (Google Blog)
• OpenAI is using hundreds of GPUs & 128,000 CPU cores on GCP (blog.openai.com)
• Why businesses fail at machine learning (hackernoon.com)

From the “there’s a DB on GCP for you” department :

• Announcing MongoDB Atlas free tier on GCP (in three regions) (Google blog)
• Running JanusGraph with Cloud Bigtable (Google documentation)

From the “Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam” department :

• Dataflow SDK 2.5 is the last in the series — from now on, Dataflow will support the Apache Beam SDK directly (Google blog)
• Serverless AVRO to/from CSV transformation with Dataflow and Cloud Storage with “Running format transformations with Cloud Dataflow and Apache Beam” (Google blog)

From the “wealth of GCP content on Medium.com” department :

• World Cup visualized: The most valuable players (medium.com)
• My tips for getting help with Google Cloud Platform (medium.com)
• Exploring gRPC on Google Cloud Platform (medium.com)

From the “random things that didn’t really fit in other sections, sorry” department :

• Google Cloud for Electronic Design Automation: new partners (Google blog)
• Emulating Google’s Cloud Pub/Sub on Apache Kafka (blog.appscale.com)
• Google .NET Developer Survey
• Scaling Effectively: when Kubernetes met Celery (hackernoon.com)

From the “In case you missed it (ICYMI)” department :

• [Beta] Cloud Functions now available in four regions around the world (Google Documentation)
• [GA] Bust a move with Transfer Appliance, now generally available in U.S (Google blog)
• [Beta] Restricting Access to (Compute Engine) Images
• [GA] NVIDIA GPU in Kubernetes Engine nodes

From the “all things multimedia” department :

• [Podcast] GCP Podcast #133 ML Kit with Brahim Elbouchikhi and Sachin Kotwani (gcppodcast.com)
• [Video] Istio, we have a problem! Understanding and fixing bugs with a service-mesh (dotconferences.com)
• [Podcast] SRE, with Tina Zhang and Fred van den Driessche (kubernetespodcast.com)

This week’s picture is from the announcement of Cloud Filestore, in beta for all real soon™ :

That is all for this week!
-Alexis