Mark Mirchandani and Brian Dorsey are together again this week for an episode all about cloud migration using Txture and Accenture. Our guests Matthias Farwick of Txture, Patrick Niesel of Accenture, and Jason Purvor of Google help us understand their roles in cloud migration with some formal introductions to start the show. Txture helps companies assess their migration capabilities, providing insights to what will be necessary in the process and how viable cloud migration is as an option. Accenture works with Txture to augment the planning of migration strategies for clients. Jason helps us understand how Google uses the information gleaned from these assessments to help customers understand what the journey to Google Cloud will look like for their business. Txture provides good data which helps Google and clients make better decisions, not just in migration, but for the future health of the project while operating in the cloud. Our guests share the challenges of cloud migration and detail how these three powerhouse companies work together to overcome hurdles. From information gathering and budgeting to security and implementation, Txture, Accenture, and Google help companies understand their specific obstacles and develop a plan. Matthias uses a large banking client as an example to walk our listeners through a typical cloud migration process that takes advantage of Txture, Accenture, and Google. Jason details the process customers go through with Google as they establish their cloud environments and make decisions about the future of their projects. Through the analysis of four layers, Google helps customers think through this highly technical and involved migration process. Matthias describes the three assessment steps Txture applies to the process as well, and how these multiple-company analyses work together to create a solid cloud project now and continue to improve the project in the future. Matthias, Patrick, and Jason offer advice for companies considering a shift to the cloud, stressing the importance of preparing good data and keeping time predictions realistic. Company-wide cooperation is an important tool in the success of a cloud migration as well. Matthias Farwick Matthias Farwick co-founded Txture, a software for large scale cloud application assessments and modernization programs that is currently expanding to the US. Matthias is an avid mountaineer and skier. Patrick Niesel Patrick Niesel has been working within Accenture focusing on cloud transformations and in particular on application assessments. Jason Purvor Jason Purvor is a data centre exit strategist engaged in large scale migrations and “all in” transformations. He formerly ran CloudPhysics EMEA supporting Googlers with high resolution data center assessments. Cool things of the week What is Cloud SQL? blog Save money and time with automated VM management and suspend/resume blog Cost optimization using automated VM management docs Interview Txture site Accenture site Cloud Insider site Txture Cloud Transformation site Data Centre Transformation with Google site Cloud Maturity Assessment site Google Cloud Adoption Framework whitepaper Accenture-Google Business Group site The Txture Cloud Transformation Platform site Cloud Center of Excellence blog The 6Rs of Cloud Transformation blog Cloud-to-Cloud Assessment blog What’s something cool you’re working on? Brian is working on a video series called VM End to End with Carter Morgan.

Carter Morgan and Guillaume Laforge co-host this week’s episode about what it took to develop the Google I/O Adventure Game. Our guest Valentin Deleplace and Guillaume introduce us to the game designed to encourage interaction with I/O attendees at the virtual conference held this year. Adventure takes the look of a 90s role-playing game. The online world facilitates the meeting of hundreds of conference attendees and presenters to mimic the in-person conference setting and facilitate meaningful conversations. With avatars, text chatting capabilities, and mini games, attendees’ experiences go beyond simply watching online technical presentations. The development of Adventure Game required scalability to handle varying attendee numbers. It takes advantage of many GCP products, including Compute Engine and Cloud Run. Valentin describes why he and the team chose Cloud Run and how they used it to to stress test the game. He talks about challenges the team faced and how they overcame them to produce a smooth, enjoyable experience for conference-goers. Being a game that’s live for specific periods of time rather than indefinitely presented different challenges as well. Valentin explains that scaling down, for example, is treated differently for this type of game. Adventure will be available at future conferences. Valentin Deleplace Valentin Deleplace is a developer advocate at Google. He’s also a senior cloud backend engineer, interested in performance and UX, and an enthusiast Gopher. Cool things of the week New Cloud Functions min instances reduces serverless cold starts blog What’s the key to a more secure Cloud Function? It’s a secret! blog Shift security left with on-demand vulnerability scanning blog All you need to know about Cloud Storage blog Interview Google I/O site Chrome Dev Summit site Join the Adventure at Google I/O video Google’s I/O Adventure was almost as good as being there article Set Snail site Compute Engine site Cloud Run site Using WebSockets docs App Engine site Agones site What’s something cool you’re working on? Carter is working VM End to End. Guillaume is working on new features for Cloud Workflows and helping with the Serverless Expeditions videos.

Your hosts Stephanie Wong and Alicia Williams talk about BigQuery Admin Reference Guides with guest Leigha Jarett. Leigha tells us a bit about the origins of the Admin Reference Guide, which was developed to address frequent customer questions. The series of guides and videos covers onboarding topics from resource hierarchy and APIs to BigQuery tables and storage in an effort to help new admins get started. The team’s Reference Guide on tables helps admins understand the difference between federated and native tables, and Leigha tells our listeners some tips for using each type. Slots and reservations for workload management in BigQuery can be challenging to understand, but these Reference Guides and accompanying videos offer clear explanations. Optimizing projects for speed and monetary efficiency are important topics for any client, and Leigha and the optimization team have addressed these concerns as well. Tips for monitoring, data governance, and the secure sharing of data are also included in their video series, BigQuery Spotlight. We wrap up with a discussion on BigQuery APIs and how easy it is to integrate BigQuery and other Google products. Leigha Jarett Leigha is a developer advocate on the Google Cloud Data & Analytics team. She focuses on making sure developers using tools like BigQuery and Looker are getting the most possible value from their data. Cool things of the week Analyze Cloud Spanner data in BigQuery with federated queries docs Release notes dataset in BigQuery docs and XML feed Google Cloud release notes docs and XML feed Release notes in Cloud Console site Top 25 Google Search terms, now in BigQuery blog Interview BigQuery Admin Reference Guide Blog Recap site BigQuery Admin Reference Guide blog posts site BigQuery Spotlight Video Series videos BigQuery site BigQuery Documentation docs Cloud Spanner site Data Catalog site Apps Script site Looker site What’s something cool you’re working on? Alicia is building new BigQuery architectures in order to understand the journey and identify potential pain areas that may need more support.

This week on the podcast, we welcome guest Megan O’Keefe to talk about KRM and Kubernetes with your hosts Mark Mirchandani and Anthony Bushong. To start the show, Megan gives us a quick rundown of Kubernetes, an open-source tool to orchestrate containers and manage other GCP resources. She explains the difference between declarative and imperative to help us better understand the basics of Kubernetes. We tackle the challenges people face when beginning their Kubernetes journey and how it works with other open-source projects, like Anthos. This year, Megan and her team have been working to help developers understand the Kubernetes Resource Model, a concept that helps define how companies can organize and run clusters, enforce policies, and more for improved standardization across multiple teams. Megan explains GitOps, a deployment model for Kubernetes focusing on Git, and takes us through examples of implementation. We learn about Config Sync and how it helps with optimizing and automating GitOps. Megan goes over some other valuable tools, including Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper, which help developers specify not just which resources are allowed, but also what kinds of things are allowed within each resource. We wrap up the show with a discussion on streamlining the development process with strategic use of Kubernetes and the help of open-source tools like Skaffold. Megan also talks about controllers like Config Connector that help with deploying to a GCP project and the things she finds most exciting about this space. Megan O’Keefe Megan O’Keefe is a Developer Relations Engineer at Google Cloud, helping developers build platforms with Kubernetes and Anthos. Cool things of the week Listen up! Google Cloud Reader reaches 50 episodes blog Private Pools Overview docs Interview Kubernetes site GKE site KRM site KRM Tutorial Demos site Build a platform with KRM: Part 1 - What’s in a platform? blog Build a platform with KRM: Part 2 - How the Kubernetes resource model works blog Build a platform with KRM: Part 3 - Simplifying Kubernetes app development blog Build a platform with KRM: Part 4 - Administering a multi-cluster environment blog Build a platform with KRM: Part 5 - Manage hosted resources from Kubernetes blog I do declare! Infrastructure automation with Configuration as Data blog Multi-cluster Use Cases docs CNCF Kubernetes Overview site Anthos site Anthos Technical Overview docs Anthos Config Management site Config Sync Overview docs Guide To GitOps site Policy Controller Overview docs Kustomize site Cloud Code site Config Connector Overview docs Crossplane site Skaffold site Open Policy Agent site Backstage site What’s something cool you’re working on? Anthony shared info about GKE on the podcast last week and he’s been working on his video series on GKE cost optimization. The solutions guide and white paper are great resources for this topic.

Kaslin Fields and Mark Mirchandani host this week’s episode of the podcast as we celebrate one of our favorite Google products, Google Kubernetes Engine! Anthony Bushong and Gari Singh join the party to talk about GKE’s life journey, what’s new, and what’s coming up for the service. Each guest brings their unique perspective to the show starting with their definitions of Kubernetes and GKE, tailored to a six year old. How does Kubernetes relate to cookies, Disney World, and Pokemon? Kaslin, Anthony, and Gari break it down. Next, each guest talks their favorite GKE features and what makes the service different. Kaslin loves the persistent storage feature, among others. Anthony appreciates the evolution of GKE to a place where it supports many different workloads and situations for clients and how easy it is to get started with GKE. GKE’s ability to connect easily to other GCP products and features and GKE Autopilot are some of Gari’s favorite things about the service. Best practices and advice for new users are shared by our guests. From practical tips for project planning to encouragement with long-term problem solving, our guests offer listeners resources and ideas for a successful GKE project. Kaslin, Anthony, and Gari share their favorite customer stories with us and talk about the fun, interesting events Google has hosted for GKE customers. The future of GKE looks bright, with new options for Windows containers, expanded Autopilot uses, and multicluster support. KubeCon is coming up soon, so keep an eye out for more Kubernetes and GKE news! Anthony Bushong Anthony Bushong has been working in the field with production GKE users, both large and small, for almost 5 years now. In Kubernetes time, since Kubernetes v1.3! Gari Singh Gari Singh is an Outbound Product Manager focused on GKE and Anthos. In this role, he has the opportunity to work with many customers and help align their needs with overall product direction. Kaslin Fields Kaslin Fields is a Developer Advocate at Google Cloud, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Ambassador, and a contributor to Open Source Kubernetes. As a Developer Advocate, she engages with Open Source communities both as a member, and as an advocate for their needs as users (or potential users) of Google Cloud’s products. She is passionate about making technology accessible to a broad audience through making the information available in many forms, such as videos, blogs, documentation, and even comics which she illustrates herself! Cool things of the week Try a tutorial in the Google Cloud Console blog GCP Podcast Episode 180: Firebase with Jen Person podcast Migrate, Manage & Modernize: Windows Workloads Powered by GKE and Anthos site Interview GKE site Kubernetes site Explain Like I’m 5: Containers VS VMs blog Introducing GKE Autopilot: a revolution in managed Kubernetes blog Best practices for running cost-optimized Kubernetes applications on GKE docs Discover and invoke services across clusters with GKE multi-cluster services blog The evolution of Kubernetes networking with the GKE Gateway controller blog Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud blog Bayer Crop Science seeds the future with 15000-node GKE clusters blog Helping researchers at CERN to analyze powerful data and uncover the secrets of our universe blog Optimize costs in GKE with monitoring systems video Monitoring for efficient cluster binpacking in GKE video Monitoring for app right-sizing in GKE video Cloud Next 2021 site KubeCon site GCP Podcast Episode 210: Kubernetes Config Connector with Emily Cai podcast GCP Podcast Episode 234: GKE Turns Five with Alex Zakonov and Drew Bradstock podcast GCP Podcast Episode 252: GKE Cost Optimization with Kaslin Fields and Anthony Bushong podcast GCP Podcast Episode 257: GKE Autopilot with Yochay Kiriaty and William Denniss podcast What’s something cool you’re working on? Kaslin is working on a ton of things, including Kube Essentials and GKE Essentials (coming soon), KubeCon panel and keynote addresses, and Fields Tested - CNCF Twitch - CTF.

Guest Ryan Przybyl is back this week to tell hosts Lorin Price and Stephanie Wong more about service networking and what the future holds for the networking field. Picking up from last week, Ryan starts by detailing the products and features Google has developed to help enterprise customers shift to a service networking architecture. He walks us through an example scenario and explains how a company might work with Google to gradually shift. Google continues to grow in the service networking space. As client requirements are identified or changed, Google continually develops products to satisfy the varying networking needs. Ryan talks about tools like Network Intelligence Center, which allows network visibility and aims to ease the transition for traditional networking specialists. He talks about the Grow with Google Model, a term he coined to describe the step-by-step path his team helps enterprises take in the journey to full service networking. The process can take years and Ryan encourages clients to revisit their models periodically to take full advantage of new Google product offerings. He addresses the financial aspects of the networking shift as well. Ryan offers advice for companies looking to move to the cloud and tells our listeners his thoughts on the future of networking. Ryan Przybyl Ryan Przybyl is a Networking Specialist at Google Chicago, and has held roles in both Cloud Customer Engineering and Google’s Network Operations. Prior to Google, Ryan was the Senior Director of Sales Engineering for Level 3 Communications. Ryan’s focus is on helping customers understand Google Cloud’s networking technologies while ensuring customers make use of Google Cloud best practices. When not talking with customers, Ryan is usually working with product and engineering teams to ensure Google Cloud is developing the right networking products for the future. Cool things of the week Consume services faster, privately and securely - Private Service Connect now in GA blog Elevate your security with new Secret Manager features and integrations blog Google named a Leader in 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services again blog Interview Google Cloud Networking Products site Private Service Connect docs Private Service Connect and Service Directory: A revolution to connect your application in Cloud video Migration to Google Cloud: Getting Started docs What’s New in Networking videos The future of service networking video Traffic Director site Envoy Proxy site Network Intelligence Center site What’s something cool you’re working on? Lorin is working on Private Service Connect docs. Stephanie is working on new episodes of What’s New in Networking.

This week on the show, Lorin Price and Stephanie talk about the differences between traditional and service networking with guest Ryan Przybyl. Ryan starts the show telling us how customer needs and advancing cloud technologies have shifted the conversations he has with customers from a traditional networking focus to an emphasis on cloud services. Ryan describes how he helps different sized companies approach networking, whether they’re cloud native or shifting to a cloud approach from a traditional background. For example, companies that take advantage of Google Cloud and its services can deploy environments quickly, allowing developers to work without infrastructure constraints. Enterprise companies using more traditional networking that move into the cloud will need to make some changes, Ryan says, comparing apples to oranges. They want to move in a way that takes advantage of the cloud without negatively impacting performance. Later, Ryan tells us all about service-oriented networking and how it’s possible for companies to choose pieces to shift to a service-oriented architecture without re-doing the entire project. We learn about Google’s Private Service Connect which handles things like routing for companies connecting to third party services. Ryan offers some advice for companies considering this move and regales us with interesting anecdotes from his time helping clients. Ryan Przybyl Ryan Przybyl is a Networking Specialist at Google Chicago, and has held roles in both Cloud Customer Engineering and Google’s Network Operations. Prior to Google, Ryan was the Senior Director of Sales Engineering for Level 3 Communications. Ryan’s focus is on helping customers understand Google Cloud’s networking technologies while ensuring customers make use of Google Cloud best practices. When not talking with customers, Ryan is usually working with product and engineering teams to ensure Google Cloud is developing the right networking products for the future. Cool things of the week Private Service Connect is GA blog Securing the software development lifecycle with Cloud Build and SLSA blog Container Security: Building trust in your software supply chain site Introducing Cloud Build private pools: Secure CI/CD for private networks blog Interview Google Cloud Networking Products site Private Service Connect docs Private Service Connect and Service Directory: A revolution to connect your application in Cloud video Migration to Google Cloud: Getting Started docs What’s New in Networking videos What’s something cool you’re working on? Lorin is working on Private Service Connect docs.

Philip O’Toole and Reed Taylor talk with Stephanie and guest host Terry Ryan all about the new features in Google Cloud Logging on this episode of the podcast. Cloud Logging provides users with management and analyzation of project logs, the reports that describe the state of every system in a project. Reed walks us through Cloud Logging, including a list of features and how other GCP products integrate well with Logging. Once logs are sorted, Cloud Logging also provides tools for detailed query and analysis of log data. But storage and management of logs is as important as sorting and analyzing, and Reed tells us why this third component is vital. New features in storage and management promise to streamline the process. Log Buckets, for example, allow the separation of routing and storage, while Log Views make secure field-level access possible. Log Retention means users can dictate how long different types of logs are stored. These new features help users comply with standards and regulations in the data space. Our guests give more examples of how these tools improve logging tasks. Philip O’Toole Philip O’Toole is an Engineering Manager at Google Pittsburgh, leading development teams working on GCP’s Cloud Logging Platform. Prior to Google he led development teams at InfluxDB, Loggly, and Riverbed Technology. You can find him on the web at https://www.philipotoole.com. Reed Taylor Reed Taylor is a Senior Product Manager at Google Pittsburgh, just last week marked his 10th “Googleversary” since starting at the office. In that time he’s worked on a range of products including Google Search, Google Shopping, and AdWords. Reed joined GCP just this Spring, and is now focused on Logging products within the Cloud Operations suite. Cool things of the week Grow your ML skills with free offer from Coursera blog Advancing our trusted cloud with engineered-in, invisible security blog Interview Google Cloud Logging site Google Cloud Logging Documentation docs Managing log buckets docs Managing log views on your log buckets docs Data Governance for Log Data Whitepaper site Principles for Security and Managing Logs Whitepaper site What’s something cool you’re working on? Terry has been working on tutorials for the Cloud Ops team. His recent Cloud Logging tutorial is available now.

This week on the podcast, hosts Stephanie Wong and Bukola Ayodele speak with Nikhil Kaul and Victor Szalvay about security in the software supply chain. Cloud OnAir will be offering a virtual event on supply chain software security on July 29th, and our guests start the show by telling us more about it. The recent cyber attacks on US companies have brought to light the importance of cyber security. A new set of guidelines for securing these components and software as a whole will be released soon, impacting not just software developers but the users as well. The Cloud OnAir event will breakdown these new guidelines and educate attendees on steps to take to ensure more secure software and software components. Internally, Google has been optimizing their software supply chain security for years with solutions like BeyondCorp and internally developed solutions that Google has since adapted for their clients. These solutions will be discussed in detail in the Cloud OnAir event. Victor goes on to explain the three areas of supply chain security and how they fit into the overall security of online platforms. Software projects are often built using many small pieces of software sourced from third parties, which can create vulnerabilities. The new guidelines will help ensure quality and security at all levels of development for software and its pieces, thus strengthening security at every level of the supply chain. Nikhil and Victor talk about issues that contribute to supply chain security, including the risks that a microservices architecture can introduce and the use of open source software and their dependencies. We hear about Google’s contributions to the supply chain security effort, like OpenSSF that strives to bring the open source community together toward the goal of cyber security. Our guests give listeners tips on starting the supply chain security journey. Join the Cloud OnAir talk to learn more! Nikhil Kaul Nikhil leads a team of product marketers focused on driving and building messaging, positioning, and go-to-market strategy for Google Cloud’s DevOps portfolio. Victor Szalvay Victor is an Outbound Product Manager with Google Cloud focused on helping customers get the most from the cloud. Previously he has been a tech entrepreneur and leader, with a concentration on DevOps and app dev team productivity. Cool things of the week Helping you pick the greenest region for your Google Cloud resources blog Optimizing your Google Cloud spend with BigQuery and Looker blog Interview Container Security: Building trust in your software supply chain site OpenSSF site Deps site SLSA site Cloud Build site BeyondCorp site Binary Authorization for Borg docs GKE Autopilot docs GCP Podcast Episode 251: BeyondCorp with Kiran Nair and Ameet Jani podcast What’s something cool you’re working on? Bukola is working on the new season of Security Command Center set to be released next month!

Allison Kornher, a Cloud Technical Resident at Google, introduces us to Firestore, a scalable NoSQL document database. She explains the differences between SQL and NoSQL databases and the four categories of NoSQL databases. Each Firestore document belongs to a collection and is stored in key value pairs for easy management. Subcollections add to the flexibility of Firestore design. Allison gives tips for getting started with Firestore and recommends considering the CAP theorem when choosing a database type.