Author: Google Cloud

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Sandeep Dinesh, Developer AdvocateEditor’s note: Today marks the first installment in a seven-part video and blog series from Google Developer Advocate Sandeep Dinesh on how to get the most out of your Kubernetes environment. Today he tackles the theory and practicalities of keeping your container images as small as possible. Docker makes building containers a breeze. Just put a standard Dockerfile into your folder, run the docker ‘build’ command, and shazam! Your container image is built! The downside of this simplicity is that it’s easy to build huge containers full of ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Brett Hesterberg, Product ManagerAmong open-source relational databases, PostgreSQL is one of the most popular—and the most sought-after by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that PostgreSQL is now generally available and fully supported for all customers on our Cloud SQL fully-managed database service. Backed by Google’s 24x7 SRE team, high availability with automatic failover, and our SLA, Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL is ready for the demands of your production workloads. It’s built on the strength and reliability of Google Cloud’s infrastructure, scales to support critical workloads and ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Manjot Pahwa, Product Manager, Cloud Networking; Ahmet Balkan, Developer Experience Engineer and Bowei Du, Software Engineer, Cloud NetworkingEditor’s note: This is the fourth in a series of blog posts on container security at Google. You can find the other posts in the series here. Security is a crucial factor in deciding which public cloud provider to move to—if at all. Containers have become the standard way to deploy applications both in the public cloud and on-premises, and Google Kubernetes Engine implements several best practices to ensure the security and privacy of ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Chad W. Jennings, BigQuery Product Manager We launched BigQuery, our enterprise data warehouse solution, in 2011 so that our customers could leverage the processing power of Google's infrastructure to perform super-fast SQL queries. And although BigQuery is already available to all our customers no matter where they’re located, many enterprises need additional options for storing data and performing analysis in the countries where they operate. That’s why we’re rolling out regional availability for BigQuery. Google Cloud’s Tokyo region is our first expansion site, but it’s only the first step in a ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Dan Aharon, Product Manager, Cloud AI Back in November, we announced the beta of Dialogflow Enterprise Edition. Today, on the heels of introducing Cloud Text-to-Speech and updating Cloud Speech-to-Text, we’re releasing Dialogflow Enterprise Edition for general availability, complete with support and a Service Level Agreement (SLA) that businesses need for their production deployments. It’s been a busy month for Cloud AI and conversational technology! Hundreds of thousands of developers already use Dialogflow (formerly API.AI) to build voice- and text-based conversational experiences powered by machine learning and natural language understanding. Even if ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Seth Vargo, Staff Developer Advocate HashiCorp Vault is a powerful open source tool for secrets management, popular with many Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers today. HashiCorp Vault provides "secret management as a service," acting as a static secret store for encrypted key-value pairs; a secret generation tool to dynamically generate on-the-fly credentials; and pass-through encryption service so that applications don’t need to roll their own encryption. Today, we're announcing exciting improvements to the existing Google Cloud Storage backend for HashiCorp Vault, including high availability.As mentioned in our blog post announcing Google ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Priya Wadhwa, Software Engineer Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon, which requires root access on your machine to run. This can make it difficult to build container images in environments that can’t easily or securely expose their Docker daemons, such as Kubernetes clusters (for more about this, check out the 16th oldest open Kubernetes issue). To overcome these challenges, we’re excited to introduce kaniko, an open-source tool for building container images from a Dockerfile even without privileged root access. With kaniko, we ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Morgan McLean, Product Manager, John Bryan, Software Engineer, and Dave Raffensberger, Software Engineer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) provides developers and operators with fine-grained billing and resource access management for separate applications through projects. But while isolating application services across projects is important for security and cost allocation, it can make debugging cross-service issues more difficult. Stackdriver Trace, our tool for analyzing latency data from your applications, can now visualize traces and logs for requests that cross multiple projects, all in a single waterfall chart. This lets you see how requests propagate ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Max Ross, Director, GCP Engineering Ten years ago, we announced Google App Engine with a simple video and a blog post. It is truly humbling to look back at the strides we have made with App Engine, how it’s changed application development, and inspired our customers to develop on the cloud and build their businesses on our platform. As an early member of the engineering team, there are a few key memories that stand out from the early days. I remember the excitement of seeing the first App Engine app crack ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. By Bryan Nairn, Product Marketing Manager This week we conclude our whitepaper series on migration with the final installment, “Running Your Modern .NET Application on Kubernetes.” If you’re just tuning in, you may want to read the first and second posts on the series, as well as the corresponding whitepapers. Using the .NET-based PetShop application as an example, the first paper discusses monoliths versus microservices, and how to think about deconstructing a monolith into microservices using domain driven design. The second paper explores modernization techniques using microservices, including using Firebase for authentication, ... Read More