Hello cloud gurus. My name is Broadus Palmer,
and I want to welcome you to GCP This Month for June, 2020,
GCP continues to deliver some great features and functional updates to make the
platform even more enjoyable to work with. Today,
we'll go over some updates to cloud identity and access management.
Some great new networking features.
We'll dig into some additions to GCP's video intelligence API,
plus many more important updates.
Just a reminder that we have less than one month left before the start of Google
Oloud Next OnAir 2020. Now, if you haven't registered yet,
be sure to take advantage of the non week run a brilliant content that really
has some great speakers. Now check out the link provided,
in this month's episode for more information and to reserve your seat.
Now let's get started!
Google's bring your own IP service is now available for compute engine in beta.
Bring your own IP allows companies to bring their own public IP fixes while
letting Google cloud handle the routing announcement for you.
Availability of the service is subject to approval from Google and applicants
must be wanting to bring blocks of 256 addresses or more to be considered.
Now Google's documentation on this is still a little light,
so stay tuned for further details in the future. External load balancer,
header and parameter based routing has finally entered GA.
No longer do you need extra services like Nginx to manage your routing for
custom situations.
External load balancer can now natively make decisions based on HTTP header
information and URL query parameters, AB testing,
selective routing to different backends ,or just giving different user
experience based on URL parameters just got a whole lot easier.
Transaction statistic tables, a new feature for cloud spanner,
which helps investigate performance issues is now in general availability.
This future can help you discover potential bottlenecks that are impacting
latency in your database.
The new dynamic SQL feature for bigquery is now in beta.
Using execute immediate,
it will allow you to execute dynamically generated sequence strings from within
big query. Now,
for those who aren't aware with dynamic sql can do it allows for client
applications to act interactively,
passing different information at different times from the user.
Now this would mean more custom and dynamic experiences for the user and less
guesswork for software designers.
There's been a definite push for ML & AI development at Google over the past few
years and their efforts show no sign of slowing down with GCP announcing some
cool updates for their already impressive services.
Now Google cloud intelligence API is now even smarter with person and face
detection available in beta.
Now these features can now detect the presence of a person or look for faces in
a video and is able to carry that context over and identify them across multiple
videos and video segments.
These additional features allow for attributes like clothing and hair,
as well as poses through recognition and tracking for up to 17 different body
landmarks. This means we can potentially identify a person's mannerisms with the
combination of pattern matching. Now that's some pretty powerful stuff.
Another great development that the Google team has released is real-time audio
translation. Now in beta.
Now this technology allows for impressive low latency translations on live
streaming audio or from prerecorded audio files.
Now currently Google API supports 11 source and target languages with more to
come. So that's it for this month's bites, let's get into our GCP Gems.
Now for our first Gem this month,
we're going to take a closer look at cloud functions,
which is getting a pretty cool upgrade with the recent announcement of Java 11
support in beta. Now prepare yourselves my fellow developers.
This means that you can finally create cloud functions using all of your
favorite JVM languages, Java, groovy, scala, Kotlin, and more.
Complete with access to whatever required resources your functions need within
your private VPC. Now, this is a huge win for serverless application backends,
giving developers more freedom and the power to create seamless integration with
third party backend services and APIs.
Now this also provides the possibility to integrate with mobile or IoT backends,
as well as the ability to process data in real time.
Now you can write HTTP functions that dynamically respond to HTTP events and
create backend functions to process triggers and events from many GCP services
like file store, which has also recently had his own scalability upgrade,
Pub/sub, cloud storage, and more.
Now this will provide a seamless interlink between applications front and back
end services thanks to functions now supporting Java 11.
Are you like me tired of constantly having to jump in G suite and manage users
and access management permissions? Well,
it sounds like Google has finally heard our demands in asking for these features
for so long.
Cloud identity and access management has released in beta the ability to create
and edit Google groups within the Google cloud console.
[Cheers].
Google groups allows you to manage users at scale,
as each member of the Google group inherits a cloud IAM Role granted to that
group.
Now this allows you to use the groups membership to manage all the users roles,
instead of requiring you to grant cloud IAM roles to individual users itself.
Gone are the days of having two browsers open for managing groups and
privileges, no more jumping between different interfaces anymore.
We can simply manage groups of permissions from within the cloud console.
You'll be able to view, create and delete groups.
And if data sharing is enabled for your organization,
you'll be able to view the automatically generated audit logs for anytime
someone changes your groups, membership all in one place.
This new update is the beginning to bringing the administration experience of
GCP to the sweet spot where everything can be managed centrally - a one stop
administration spot, if you will.
Our winner for this month's GCP Guru of the Month is Eric Post.
Eric is a lead cloud security engineer from Virginia. Congratulations Eric,
we'll be sending you a care package, containing a t-shirt, some stickers,
and a hand signed card.
For all you other gurus who want a special prize package try your luck by
answering questions which can be found in the provided link.
Now that's all we have for this month's Google cloud platform release.
Tune into next month's video for more great announcements.
I'm Broadus Palmer and thanks for joining me on GCP this month.