Welcome to issue #331 January 30th, 2023

News

A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait - A new Google Cloud region is coming to Kuwait to support our growing customer base.

Better together: Looker connector for Looker Studio now generally available - You can now access your Looker modeled data in Looker Studio with the Looker connector, now generally available.

Manage Kubernetes configuration at scale using the new GitOps observability dashboard - Easily keep track of your GitOps deployments across clusters with Config Management Dashboard.

Apply policy bundles and monitor policy compliance at scale for Kubernetes clusters - Policy Controller enables the enforcement of programmable policies for Anthos clusters. This blog is for introducing new features launched for ACM - Policy Controller.

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Claudie is multi-cloud managed Kubernetes

Claudie sets new standards for multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud operability, disaster recovery and high availability.

• Capable of placing each nodepool into a different cloud provider.
• Enables seamless workload migration between cloud providers while taking full production load.
• Operated via Infrastructure-as-Code and therefore compatible with GitOps driven cluster provisioning.
• Makes clusters resilient to a full cloud provider outage and breaks the cloud provider lock-in.
• Enables a combination of cloud resources for the best cost efficiency.

100% upstream Kubernetes compliant and open-source. Engineered by Berops.

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Articles, Tutorials

Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Kubernetes

How Confidential Space and multi-party computation can help manage digital assets more securely and efficiently - Google Cloud customers can implement multi-party computation solutions with our new Confidential Space, which can be used to securely manage and instantly transact digital assets. Here’s what you need to know.

How The Home Depot gets a single pane of glass for metrics across 2,200 stores - Learn how The Home Depot used Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus to bring together metrics from their cloud, on-prem, and over 2,200 stores.

Gateway API in GKE— HTTPS with Google Managed Certificate - Setting up TLS through Certificate Manager for Google Managed Certificate and applied it to Gateway API.

Firewall 3.0 and secure tags - Learn what’s new with GCP network firewall policies and secure tags. How to leverage them in your designs.

New GCP firewall (3.0) and secure tags tutorial - An example of implementing infrastructure and using firewall secure tags.

Google Cloud-Shared VPC Network - An overview, setup and using shared VPC.

Cloud-native Netbox On Google Cloud Platform - This post demonstrates how to run a popular open source IP address management (IPAM) tool called Netbox in a cloud-native way on Google Cloud Platform.

GKE Security: Top 10 Strategies for Securing Your Cluster

Validating Admission Policies with GKE 1.26 - Leveraging new Validation Admission Policies feature in GKE.

Sigstore’s cosign and policy-controller with GKE, Artifact Registry and KMS - Using Sigstore to signcontainer images in Cloud KMS and Artifact Registry.

Secure your GCP organization perimeter with Organization Policies - A closer look at Organization policies and a few common use cases.

Working with Repeated Fields in Chronicle SIEM - Exploring Repeated fields, a field type within Chronicle SIEM’s UDM schema that can store multiple values in a single key.

App Development, Serverless, Databases, DevOps

L’Oreal enables a global developer workforce with secure cloud development environments - L’Oreal empowered its global developer workforce with Cloud Workstations, a managed and secure cloud development environment and IDE solution.

Native Backups on Google Cloud - Is Google Cloud Backup and DR a revolution or an evolution?

Google Cloud Storage ~ Use HMAC to authenticate requests to Cloud Storage - HMAC can be one of the mechanisms to authenticate requests to Cloud Storage.

Certificate Manager — Upload Self Managed Certificate - Changing from google managed certificate to self-managed certificate through Certificate Manager.

How to plan your SQL Server migration to Cloud SQL - Migrating SQL Server databases to Cloud SQLDB instance migration to Cloud SQL for SQL Server is an easy and achievable task, learn how with backup import, Snapshot and Transactional Replication, and more.

Transforming customer experiences with modern cloud database capabilities - Learn how Google Cloud customers are transforming customer experiences with modern cloud database capabilities.

Accessing Cloud SQL using Private Service Connect - Privately connecting to Cloud SQL from a remote network using PSC.

GCP Alerts the Easy Way: Alerting for Cloudfunctions and Cloudrun using Goblet. - Using Goblet framework to deploy monitoring alerts.

Deploy Containerised Plotly Dash App with CI/CD (P2: GCP) - Deploying an existing containerized app on Google Cloud Platform.

Your Guide to Google Cloud Function Identities - This blog post is a deep dive into Cloud Functions Identities.

Big Data, Analytics, ML&AI

How to get started with the Political Ads Transparency Report dataset - Explore the Political Ads Transparency Report dataset, how to access it, and some examples of how it can be used.

Data Governance using Dataplex - The aim of this blog is to let users know how we can implement “Data Governance on GCP using Dataplex”.

Use Pub/Sub emulator in minikube - Using Pub/Sub emulator for local development and testing in minikube.

Why we use Terraform for BigQuery - Using Terraform for Looker related BigQuery views.

Understanding BigQuery billing and optimizing it - An in-depth overview of BigQuery billing.

4 Useful BigQuery SQL Functions You May Not Know - Some not so well known BigQuery functions.

Top 5 BigQuery Information Schema queries for optimizing performance and cost - Getting insights from BigQuery INFORMATION_SCHEMA about executed queries, costs etc.

Keeping up with Google Cloud releases - With BigQuery, Cloud Functions, and Google Chat Webhooks.

Vertex AI Foundations for secure and compliant ML/AI deployment - Learn how to secure and enable Vertex AI platform as your end to end ML/AI platform for production workloads.

Scaling machine learning inference with NVIDIA TensorRT and Google Dataflow - A collaboration between Google Cloud and NVIDIA has enabled Apache Beam users to maximize the performance of ML models within their data processing pipelines, using NVIDIA TensorRT and NVIDIA GPUs, along side the new Apache Beam TensorRTEngineHandler.

Google Vertex AI Batch Predictions - Batch predictions allow you to predict large amounts of data in parallel.

Add Cloud Logging to your Vertex AI Batch Prediction Jobs - A simple way to circumwent the limited debugging and logging capabilities.

Deploying Stable Diffusion on Vertex AI - Stable Diffusion deployed in your house, for better safety & personalization.

Slides, Videos, Audio

Security Podcast - #105 Security Architect View: Cloud Migration Successes, Failures and Lessons.

GCP Life Podcast - #32 “Monrail, monorail, monorail!” – In this episode we discuss; Withings, Vegas Loop, Atlas Robot, Mark LohMeyer, VMWARE Loses Three Execs, Google Cloud Programs For Partners, MS Combat Goggles, ChatGPT Competitor, MS Plans To Crush Google, New Kid On The Block.

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Have a great week,

Zdenko