Google Cloud Platform Podcast

Yesterday Spinnaker reached its version 1.0,

Spinnaker is an open-source multi-cloud continuous delivery platform used in production at companies

In this episode Mark and Francesc enter the land of Continuous Integration, chatting with David Bendory and Christopher Sanson all about Container Builder.

David Bendory is the Tech Lead for Google Cloud Container Builder. He joined Google on the Container Builder team in April 2015 after more than 20 years in software engineering on Wall Street.

Christopher Sanson is the Product Manager for Cloud Container Builder, Spinnaker, and Cloud CICD at Google. Prior to joining Google he ran his own software development company, building web and mobile apps for companies from startups to the Fortune 100.

• Istio announcement blog
• Cloud Source Repositories: now GA and free for up to five users and 50GB of storage announcement product
• Kelsey Hightower - Keynote - Pycon 2017 youtube

• Container Builder product docs
• Google Cloud Container Builder: a fast and flexible way to package your software blog
• Building lean containers using Google Cloud Container Builder blog
• gcloud container builds submit docs
• Container Builder: Build Steps docs github
• Container Builder: Build Triggers docs
• Container Builder: Free Tier pricing
• Container Builder: Querying Build History docs
• Container Builder: Tracking Build Updates Using Cloud Pub/Sub docs
• Contact the Container Builder team: email, stackoverflow, #cloudbuild channel slack.
• Follow up Spinnaker episode will be out next week

How do I make sure that my Compute Engine instances start quickly so that I can autoscale quickly?

• GCE Startup Scripts docs
• Improving GCE boot times with custom images blog

Francesc released a new Just For Func Episode, and will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires (here are the North American locations) and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don't worry, he'll still be on the podcast!

In this episode Mark and Francesc

Fresh from Google I/O, Mark and Francesc are joined by the co-founders of Firebase, James Tamplin and Andrew Lee to let us in on all the new and awesome things that were announced!

James Tamplin is a co-founder of Firebase, and served as CEO until joining Google. He is now a Group Product Manager working on Firebase. James has a bachelor's and a master's degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Wisconsin. He has been a stage actor in New York, an improv comic, and has worked on two previous startups.

Andrew co-founded Firebase in 2011 and served as CTO until Firebase joined Google. He is now an engineering lead for Firebase, focusing on infrastructure products including the Realtime Database, Hosting, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Andrew lives and works in San Francisco.

• Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs announcement product research
• Introducing Google Cloud IoT Core: for securely connecting and managing IoT devices at scale announcement product

• Firebase
• What's new from Firebase at Google I/O 2017 blog
• Previous episodes on Firebase
  • Episode #29
  • Episode #13
• Firebase Phone Authentication web android ios
• Firebase Hosting and Cloud Functions docs
• Build Modern Apps with Firebase and Google Cloud Platform (Google I/O '17) youtube
• Open sourcing the Firebase SDKs announcement github
• Firebase performance monitoring site docs
• Firebase SDKs for Unity and C++
• Firebase Test Lab for Games docs
• Google Analytics for Firebase docs
• Android Instance Apps site
• Try Google BigQuery today: Now with 10GB of free storage announcement
• Firebase Analytics Stream and Debug View announcement stream debug
• Firebase at Google I/O 2017 presentations

How do I give one of my Google Cloud Platform Project's to another person?

• Understanding Roles in IAM docs
• Create, modify, or close your billing account help

Francesc will be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is going on vacation for a few weeks - but don't worry, he'll still be on the podcast!

Fresh from Google I/O, Mark and Francesc

Basecamp Networks uses Machine Learning to diagnose easily what kind of sickness or parasite a crop might be suffering. They're powered by Google Cloud Platform, and their CEO, Craig Ganssle, is here to tell Mark and Francesc all about it.

Craig Ganssle is the Founder and CEO of Basecamp Networks. With over 20 years in the technology industry, Craig has extensive experience developing and deploying wireless networks and designing predictive learning solutions for complex problem solving.

Craig started Basecamp Networks in 2007 providing global wireless network infrastructures as well as creative solutions for difficult and time-consuming IT issues. As a partner with Google since 2008, Craig was one of the original Glass Explorers, Google's original beta test group. In early 2013, Craig advanced to an elite small team for this innovative technology. Since then, under his leadership and Basecamp's agricultural focus, Craig's vision for Glass led his team to develop intelliSCOUT®, the world's first wearable application offering farmers a truly hands-free solution, enabling agricultural problem-solving by collecting actionable insights from the field in a fraction of the time. intelliSCOUT® technology has been demonstrated, in conjunction with the Basecamp Networks' offering, to dignitaries throughout the world, including France, where Craig was personally requested to present this technology to President Francois Hollande. In October 2016 Craig and Basecamp won the Atlanta Telecom Partnership (ATP) Technology Service Provider of The Year Award (in addition to his achievements in agricultural technological advancements).

Prior to founding Basecamp Networks, Craig was recruited by Verizon Wireless in 2001 where he oversaw U.S. Southeast Operations in the network engineering division and was later tasked with deploying LTE in the Southeast United States. Craig's advanced innovative solutions are currently in use across Verizon's entire company footprint today. During this time Craig also received a bachelor's degree from Muhlenberg College in Business Administration, and a Computer Science degree from AIU.

In addition to his contributions in the public sector, Craig served honorably in the United States Marine Corps as an intelligence communications operator with the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) 2nd Force Recon Battalion. He was later assigned as a detached "special operator" under the Department of the Navy, to Naval Special Warfare Unit S.E.A.L. Teams as a "joint operator" before being honorably discharged in 2001 for medical reasons. During his six years of service, Craig was highly decorated with various commendations and medals for his service and valor.

Craig is very active in mission work with his church that includes providing internet services in rural and remote locations globally. Basecamp Networks is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA where Craig resides with his wife and children.

• Google Cloud Platform launches Northern Virginia region announcement.
• Compute Engine machine types with up to 64 vCPUs now ready for your production workloads announcement.
  • Listen to Episode #41 Descartes Labs with Tim Kelton.
• Terraforming the Google Cloud alexander.holbreich.org.

• Basecamp Networks
• OpenCV: Open Computer Vision opencv.org
• Tensorflow: An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence tensorflow.org
• Lagom: The Opinionated Microservices Framework for moving away from the Monolith lagomframework.com
• intelliSCOUT: a product of Basecamp Networks intelliscout.io

How can I learn machine learning for free?

Follow this courses:

• Machine Learning by Stanford University coursera
• Deep Learning by Google Udacity
• CS 20SI: Tensorflow for Deep Learning Research Stanford

And more:

• Google Machine Learning Engine and episode gcppodcast #71
• Tensorflow with Eli Bixby gcppodcast #31
• Announcing general availability of GPUs for Cloud Machine Learning Engine announcement

Francesc presented at Gopherfest and the video is already out there! Next he'll be teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is currently at Nordic Games Conference, and while he won't be there, if people are in San Francisco they should head over to the Playcrafting & Extra Life 24 Hour Game Fest where we are raising money for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.

Basecamp Networks uses Machine Learning to diagnose

This week Mark and Francesc have an in depth chat with Daniel Smith about the recent Kubernetes 1.6 release and all the amazing new features found therein.

Currently TL of the API Machinery sub-team, Daniel has been working on Kubernetes since before it was open sourced, and contributed enough in the early days that he's still one of the top contributors overall. Before that, Daniel worked on Borg and briefly on AppEngine. He lives in Mountain View with his wife and two children.

• Cloud OnBoard (North America) free training events site
• IPv6 Termination for HTTP(S), SSL Proxy, and TCP Proxy Load Balancing docs
• Putting gRPC multi-language support to the test blog
• gRPC with Varun Talwar podcast
• gRPC at CoreOS with Brandon Philips podcast
• Simon Says with Sandeep Dinesh podcast

• Kubernetes site
• Kubernetes 1.6: Multi-user, Multi-workloads at Scale blog
• Five Days of Kubernetes 1.6 blog
• Go client for Kubernetes github
• etcd github
• Kubernetes Federation docs
• Kubernetes Role Based Access Control (RBAC) blog docs
• Kubernetes Assigning Pods to Nodes docs
• Advanced Scheduling in Kubernetes blog
• Kubernetes Custom Schedulers docs
• Dynamic Provisioning and Storage Classes in Kubernetes blog docs
• Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface blog
• Kubernetes scheduling GPUs docs

Q: Francesc and Mark discuss "What is the first thing you do when creating a Google Cloud Platform project?"

• Google Cloud Platform Console site
• gcloud init docs
• gcloud configuration docs
• Identity and Access Control - Adding Owners docs
• Cloud Abuse with Swati Kulshreshth and Emeka Okonkwo podcast
• Google Cloud Platform Support with Terrance Shepherd podcast

Francesc will be presenting at 2017 Gopherfest in San Francisco, teaching at Onboard Buenos Aires and running a workshop at QCon New York

Mark is going to be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference, and while he won't be there, if people are in San Francisco they should head over to the Playcrafting & Extra Life 24 Hour Game Fest where we are raising money for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals.

This week Mark and Francesc have an in depth chat with

In this episode Mark and Francesc have a great interview with Chen Goldberg, the Engineering Director for Container Engine and Kubernetes at Google - discussing all about why Kubernetes is open source and the integrations that Google Container Engine has with the wider Google Cloud Platform.

Chen leads the Container Engine and OSS Kubernetes project engineering team in Google Cloud. Chen is a technology leader with +18 years of demonstrated expertise leading global engineering teams, product R&D initiatives, and high-profile customer engagements with Fortune 500 enterprises.

Chen has a customer-centered development philosophy and believes open source is the best way to innovate and develop incredible technologies that are accessible and beneficial to everyone.

• New Singapore Region locations docs
• HTTP(S) Load Balancer supports WebSockets natively tweet docs

• Container Engine site docs
• Google Container Engine - The easiest way to use containers in production youtube
• Installing Kubernetes on Linux with kubeadm docs
• Kubernetes 1.6 announcement
• Creating a Container Engine Cluster docs
• Upgrading a Container Cluster docs
• KubeCon Keynote youtube
• Scalability updates in Kubernetes 1.6: 5,000 node and 150,000 pod clusters blog
• RBAC support for Kubernetes blog docs
• Kubernetes Community github
• Borg and Kubernetes with John Wilkes podcast
• Helm github
• Special Interest Group List github

Container Engine

Q: If I need to access an external private git repository from within Container Builder, how do I do that?

• Cloud Builder docs
• Google Cloud Source Repositories site docs
• Google Cloud Storage site docs

Mark is going to be hosting the Playcrafting + Extra Life Game Jame & Game Fest, raising money for UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Finally he'll be in Sweden for Nordic Games Conference as well.

Francesc will be presenting at the 2017 Gopherfest in San Francisco! Francesc has also released a new Just for Func episode, doing a code review of an IRC package's API.