Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/Neurotic) are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson (https://twitter.com/lukwam) from Broad Institute

and Mike Altarace from Google Cloud Platform to discuss the Platinum Customer relationship with Google Cloud Platform.

About Lukas Karlsson

Lukas (https://twitter.com/lukwam) has been working at the Broad in various roles over the last fourteen years or so.

He now run our cloud architecture and strategy and works in developer relations, advocating for the software developers who consume our services.

About Mike Altarace

Mike has been a Strategic Customer Engineer (SCE, pronounced Ski) assigned to the Broad Institute for over a year.

He’s been working with Broad on all manners of operating their GCP environment. All is on the table, technical issues, billing, shared events, certifications.

Cool things of the week

* Google Cloud Platform now open in London blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/Google-Cloud-Platform-now-open-in-London.html) gdpr (https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-our-commitment-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/)

* Container Engine now runs Kubernetes 1.7 to drive enterprise-ready secure hybrid workloads blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/07/Container-Engine-now-runs-Kubernetes-1-7-to-drive-enterprise-ready-secure-hybrid-workloads.html)

* Marvin is a go-kit server for Google App Engine github (https://github.com/NYTimes/marvin)

* Google Container Builder Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXvFhwpgitM&feature=youtu.be) podcast (https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-79-container-builder-with-christopher-sanson-and-david-bendory/)

Interview

* Broad Institute site (https://www.broadinstitute.org/)

* Google Cloud Storages home (https://cloud.google.com/storage/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/)

* Pre-emptible Virtual Machines site (https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/) docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible)

* Google Cloud Platinum Support support (https://cloud.google.com/support/)

* Customer Reliability Engineers podcast (https://www.gcppodcast.com/post/episode-72-customer-reliability-engineering-with-luke-stone/)

* Gaining full control over your organization’s cloud resources (Google Cloud Next ‘17) youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE_8zDoCY84)

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Question of the week

If I want to run a single node development Kubernetes cluster, and I don’t want to pay for a Network LoadBalancer as well - how do I expose services?

* NodePort Services docs (https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/services-networking/service/#type-nodeport)

* Configure a static IP for a Ingress Service docs (https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/tutorials/http-balancer#step_5_optional_configuring_a_static_ip_address)

Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/golangsf/events/240173664/).

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev (http://dev.paxsite.com/) and then attending Pax West (http://west.paxsite.com/) right after.(http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GcpPodcast/~4/aBQcShPnHL0)