Google Cloud Platform Podcast

This week, Terry Ryan and Brent Shaffer

Paul Newson is back to the podcast to tell us about his experience as an SRE, or Site Reliability Engineer. They keep Google and Google Cloud running and he explains to your cohosts Francesc and Mark how they make that happen.

Paul currently is going through a six month rotation as a Software Reliability Engineer, previously he focused on helping developers harness the power of Google Cloud Platform to solve their big data problems. Before that, he was an engineer on Google Cloud Storage.

Before joining Google, Paul founded a startup which was acquired by Microsoft, where he worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending time working on machine learning problems at Microsoft Research.

• Introducing Cloud Natural Language API, Speech API open beta and our West Coast region expansion blog

• What is 'Site Reliability Engineering'? Interview

• Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region TechCrunch
• Site Reliability Engineering Book
• Go Programming Language Homepage
• Keys to SRE - SREcon14 YouTube
• Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control blog

• How Kubernetes Updates Work on GKE blog

• Francesc is working on a video series justforfunc
• Mark will be at PAX DEV in Seattle and then Strange Loop in St Louis

Paul Newson is back to the podcast to tell us about his

Carter Morgan is back to discuss with your cohosts Francesc and Mark more on Kubernetes 1.3 and what is new for GKE, aka Google Container Engine.

Carter Morgan, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, co-created the Udacity course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and presented Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes at Google IO16. On the side, he teaches presentation skills to other Googlers. Before Google, Carter coded for the United States Air Force and for Microsoft. In his free time, he's a regular in the local Seattle standup comedy scene.

• A better way to bootstrap MongoDB on Google Cloud Platform post

• Kubernetes docs
• Google Container Engine docs
• IAM integration with Google Container Engine docs
• Google Container Engine Node Pools docs
• Local SSD support on GKE docs
• GKE Cluster Autoscaler docs
• Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes Udacity
• Google Cloud Shell docs

• Kubernetes local development with minikube GitHub

Mark will be at the Indie Game Festival

Carter Morgan is back to discuss with your cohosts

Carter Morgan tells your cohosts Francesc and Mark all the new features of Kubernetes 1.3, the latest version of the open source container orchestration framework.

Carter Morgan, a Developer Programs Engineer at Google, co-created the Udacity course Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes and presented Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes at Google IO16. On the side, he teaches presentation skills to other Googlers. Before Google, Carter coded for the United States Air Force and for Microsoft. In his free time, he's a regular in the local Seattle standup comedy scene.

Three products are now General Availability:

• Bigtable docs
• Cloud Router docs
• Cloud CDN docs

• Kubernetes docs
• Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes Udacity
• Best Practices for Orchestrating the Cloud with Kubernetes YouTube at Google IO16.
• Kubernetes Cluster Federation docs
• Stateful Applications in Containers!? Kubernetes 1.3 Says "Yes!" blog
• Container initialization initContainers
• Thousand Instances of Cassandra using Kubernetes Pet Set blog
• Google Container Engine (GKE) docs
• Creating a Raspberry Pi cluster running Kubernetes, the shopping list blog
• Kubernetes The Hard Way workshop
• Kubernetes Secrets docs
• Kubernetes Config Maps docs

• Making Kubernetes IP addresses static on Google Container Engine blog

Carter Morgan tells your cohosts

Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean, Product Managers at Google Cloud, cover with your cohosts Francesc and Mark some of the Stackdriver tools at your disposal when you're investigating an issue on your application.

Sharat is a product manager working on developer infrastructure for Google Cloud. He works on application monitoring and diagnostics.

Morgan is the product manager for Stackdriver Trace, and has spent much of his career working on web services and web frameworks prior to his recent arrival at Google. Morgan works out of the Kirkland, Washington office, and enjoys mountain biking and hiking in his free time.

• Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control blog post
• Inside Google's Cloud solutions with Miles Ward | The Apps Show YouTube

• Stackdriver docs
• Stackdriver Error Reporting docs
• Stackdriver Trace docs
• Stackdriver Debugger docs
• Stackdriver Logging docs
• Cloud Source Repositories docs
• Installing the Stackdriver Monitoring Agent (for GCE and AWS) docs
• Stackdriver Trace Analysis Reports docs
• GCPNext: Spend Less Time Diagnosing And More Time Developing YouTube

What are all the ways you can set environment variables?

• App Engine Environment Variables Go, Python, Java, and PHP
• Kubernetes ConfigMap docs
• Kubernetes Secrets user guide
• Storing and Retrieving Instance Metadata docs

Sharat Shroff and Morgan McLean,

Aja Hammerly, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud,