Today we learn everything there is to be learnt about Managed Infrastructure from

Pawel Siarkiewicz (https://twitter.com/psiarkiewicz) and Jerzy Foryciarz (https://twitter.com/fotwit),

two Product Managers at Google working on the topic.

Your co-hosts Francesc (https://twitter.com/francesc) and Mark (https://twitter.com/neurotic)

are here to help you understand what is Managed Infrastructure and why sometimes it might be

just the right level of abstraction and automation you need.

About Pawel

Pawel Siarkiewicz (https://twitter.com/psiarkiewicz) is a Product Manager on Google Compute Engine

Managed Infrastructure. Prior to joining Google at the start of 2016, Pawel was a Technical Director

at Electronic Arts, a CTO at Genus Capital Management and an entrepreneur.

He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and an MBA.

About Jerzy

Jerzy Foryciarz (https://twitter.com/fotwit) is a Lead Product Manager on Google Compute Engine.

Jerzy joined Google in 2011 working for Google TV, Youtube and Google Now. Prior to Google he was

an Engineering Director of Motorola Cellular Networks Software. He holds MSc in Computer

Technologies in Nuclear Physics from Jagiellonian University, PhD in Nuclear Physics From

National Academy of Sciences in Poland and an MBA from Chicago University Booth School of Business.

Cool thing of the week

* Making every (leap) second count with our new public NTP servers blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/making-every-leap-second-count-with-our-new-public-NTP-servers.html)

* Google Public NTP docs (https://developers.google.com/time/)

* Power up your Google Compute Engine VMs with Intel’s next generation, Custom Cloud Xeon Processor blog (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/power-up-your-Google-Compute-Engine-VMs-with-Intels-next-generation-Custom-Cloud-Xeon-Processor.html)

* Google Compute Engine Custom Cloud Xeon (Skylake) Processor Interest Survey form (https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevvO7mlJC45lPvdNRnjE-Hz4z-cVZGd841lc9rFgfzObeJkQ/viewform)

Interview

* Managed Instance Groups docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/)

* Autoscaling Groups of Instances docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/)

* Autoscaling Video Tutorial YouTube (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/)

* Autohealing VM Instances YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT7xDEtALPQ)

* Preemptible VM Instances docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/preemptible)

* Use Docker Containers with GCE and Managed Instance Groups docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/deploying-docker-containers)

* Rightsizing Recommendations for Google Compute Engine docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/viewing-sizing-recommendations-for-instances)

* Managed Instance Group Updater Alpha docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/updating-managed-instance-groups)

Question of the week

How do I restrict access to my service, by IP address range in Kubernetes?

* Configuring Your Cloud Provider’s Firewalls docs (http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/services-firewalls/)

* Using Networks and Firewalls docs (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/networking)

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