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2022 Technology Trends in the Google Cloud Customer Community

For the very first time, C2C in partnership with Google Cloud, conducted a research study to better understand cloud users and how they inte...
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Introducing the DevOps and SRE Moderators

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Introducing the DevOps and SRE Moderators

Let us introduce you to our DevOps and SRE Moderators: Jennifer Bergstrom.Username:     jennworks40Bio:Jenn Bergstrom is a multi-cloud solution architect with experience building cloud native solutions to meet complex customer requirements. She has over 15 years of experience in the software industry, with a focus over the last 5 years on Cloud, DevSecOps, and Chaos Engineering. Jenn enjoys helping others to grow in their knowledge and believes that mentoring is an imperative. Her curiosity and passion for learning has led to recognition as a Parsons Fellow for her cloud expertise and to opportunities to present at international summits and conferences. When not working to grow the community of cloud engineers, Jenn enjoys spending time enjoying nature’s beauty with her husband and two daughters, reading, and creating art.Company: ParsonsJob Title: PARSONS X Senior Technical Director Ahmed Tariq. Username:     ahmedtariq1Bio:Ahmed Tariq is an ambitious DevOps Engineer with a keen inter

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Saiteja-bellamNewbie
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Idea validation

Our idea is to build a DevOps training tool that focus on hands-on experience through the use of Chaos engineering in the backend, allowing users to learn by constructing and troubleshooting infrastructure? So right now i'm just reaching out to people to get some validation inputs for this ideaI just want people’s opinion on this type of tool

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Running Infrastructure Code using Least Privilege Access

Excellent article posted last week on the google devops-sre blog -https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/running-infrastructure-code-least-privilege-possibleThis article focuses on strategies for running your infrastructure as code using least privilege principles to build greater security into the process.  What steps are you taking to build security into your pipelines and infrastructure as code implementations?

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antonit
4 months ago
jennworks40
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BigQuery IAM Policy updates via Terraform

Providing automated and secure access to services like BigQuery via IAM using Terraform is a good idea, but there are challenges associated with it. Because of the potential for race conditions and a resulting temporary loss of access to users, improper implementation of the automation can lead to an unpleasant user experience. This article walks through strategies for preventing that transient situation from having a negative impact on your system’s users.https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/iam-policy-for-bigquery-dataset-authorized-views-terraformWhat challenges have you found most frustrating for your end users when it comes to implementing infrastructure as code? Drop a comment below!

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jennworks40
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6 months ago
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Digitally transforming customers

Digital transformation is a topic I’ve been hearing in industry regularly of late. And now Google Cloud has rolled out three new partner specializations aligned with related trends: Data Center Modernization Services, DevOps Services, and Contact Center AI Services. The DevOps Services specialization focuses on “implementing, managing, and improving the quality and speed of creating new applications on Google Cloud”, as noted in the attached blog post. I find it interesting that in the announcement, only two partners have achieved the DevOps Services Specialization, while the other two Specializations have five partners each who have achieved the requirements for recognition.  https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/partners/new-google-cloud-specializations-and-launch-partners-for-2023What do you think about the new specializations? Do you think DevOps Services will continue to lag behind Data Center Modernization Services and Contact Center AI Services, or will it surpass the other two o

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jennworks40
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6 months ago
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Implementing CI/CD in Cloud Composer Using Cloud Build and GitHub

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) have become integral to modern software development. The main aim of these practices is to streamline the development process and make it faster and easier to produce high-quality code.Read more Here

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Vick
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7 months ago
jennworks40
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Getting Certified in Google Cloud as a Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer?

Hi everyone!After all the excitement that comes with watching the sessions at Next this week, I’m hungry to pursue my next Google Cloud Certification.Who here is certified as a Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer? What was your favorite part of studying and learning for this certification?Who here is looking to get certified? What are you most excited to learn about as you prepare?There are lots of great free resources linked in this post https://cloud.google.com/certification/cloud-devops-engineer that I’ll be using as I study. Who’s studying with me?

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KateVysh
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7 months ago
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GitOps your service orchestrations

 GitOps takes DevOps best practices used for application development (such as version control and CI/CD) and applies them to infrastructure automation. In GitOps, the Git repository serves as the source of truth and the CD pipeline is responsible for building, testing, and deploying the application code and the underlying infrastructure. Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate at Google cloud, in his new blog talk about how to set up a Git-driven development, testing, and deployment pipeline for Workflows using Cloud Build.Click in the link below to read it more detail:https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/gitsops-service-orchestration

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7 months ago
Jens Skott
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Using BigQuery for engineering data platform

Everyone has quite a lot of data, but how many of you have an engineering data platform where you correlate system metrics, logs, DOTA metrics, GitHub engineering data to merge with business data to get a full 360 view, not just from a consumer side but from an engineering side as well.Any stories or ideas you want to share?

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Jens Skott
7 months ago
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Improve your DevOps and SRE workflows using GCP managed services

Google Cloud offers a vast array of managed services that can help organizations improve their DevOps and SRE workflows. By leveraging these services, teams can focus on delivering high quality, secure, and scalable applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. Some GCP managed services that can improve DevOps and SRE workflows are as follow: 1. Automated Deployments using Cloud Build:       Cloud Build is a fully managed CI/CD platform that enables teams to automate the deployment of their applications. With the Cloud Build, developers can define their build and deployment pipeline as code, making it easy to reproduce and version control. This saves time and reduces the risk of manual errors during deployments.2. Scalable and Resilient Infrastructure with Google Kubernetes Engine:       Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a fully managed Kubernetes service that enables teams to run their applications in a scalable and resilient manner. With GKE, teams can automate t

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Vick
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7 months ago
malamin
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Three ways to improve CI/CD in your serverless app

 What is CI/CD and how can it be improved in your serverless application?  In this video, Developer Advocate Martin Omander chats with Developer Relations Engineer Mia Villaseñor about automated builds, Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment, canary releases, and more. Watch to learn three ways you can improve CI/CD in your serverless app. Click on the video below to watch it in detail. Chapters:0:00 - Intro0:41 - What is Continuous Integration?1:14 - Automatic tests / automatic builds2:36 - Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment?3:40 - How do I set up Continuous Delivery or Deployment for my Cloud Run project?4:30 - What are canary releases?5:50 - How long should I run the canary release?6:13 - How do I set up canary releases for my Cloud Run service?6:28 - Revision-specific URLs6:51 - Wrap up Extra Credit:Tutorial: Deploying to Cloud Run using Cloud Build → https://goo.gle/3H4MWnLGithub Repository: Node.js → https://goo.gle/3weNVNwGo → https://goo.gle/3Qy9hgVPython → http

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malamin
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7 months ago
jennworks40
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The importance of culture for DevOps success

In DORA’s 2022 State of DevOps Report, they made some observations about the importance of culture in an organization’s ability to successfully implement DevOps practices. The three key components they identified are Work Arrangement Shifts, Employee Churn, and Employee Burnout. DORA observed that in high performing teams, employee churn is low, employees are invested and motivated in the team success, and the company provides flexibility in work arrangements for their teams.The linked blog describes these key components nicely:https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/culture-in-the-2022-state-of-devops-reportWhat have you observed as you’ve worked in successful DevOps organizations? Were these key components present? How about in less successful DevOps organizations? These components resonate with me, and they build on each other. At the root of them all is trust. Does the company trust its employees to try to do what’s right, or do they expect them to deliberately do what’s

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Dimitris Petrakis
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8 months ago
jennworks40
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Security’s Talks December / Next week!

These talks should be interesting, and are applicable to DevOps. Check them out and register for free by following the link! https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/security-talks-december

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ilias
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9 months ago
jennworks40
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From Monolith to Microservice - updated DevOps tech: Architecture article in Cloud Architecture Center

It’s always interesting to revisit the documentation provided in the Cloud Architecture Center. This article about DevOps tech: Architecture was just updated yesterday and covers quite a lot of ground in its text.One thing I noted - the Strangler Fig Pattern is the most common monolith to microservice pattern I’ve seen described, and it is focused on in the linked article as well. Big Bang Rewrite is a high risk alternative that is generally viewed as being a bad idea. This article talks about several migration patterns, including Strangler Fig and Big Bang Rewrite as well as a few others. Have you seen other patterns used successfully? What were they? 

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ilias
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9 months ago
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DevOps, SRE and Google Workspace Addons

Hi Community! It has surprised me, bringing a Workspace add-on to the market that I have had to employ a number of work-arounds to bring good practice to DevOps and Add-On development. Anyone else?I need to use `clasp` and maintain a disconnected git branch to effectively manage versioning, and CI,CD is practically unmanaged. Would be happy to share exactly how we run a Gold and Silver build so that our team can confidently demo code, while others work on sprints… but good to hear what everyone else is doing?

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10 months ago
lumaks
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Remote testing approaches

Hi, I am a founder of https://brokee.io. We provide hands-on technical assessments for system engineers, so that’s why I am writing this post in DevOps and SRE topic. While I’d be grateful for feedback on the product (ping me if you’d like to try our tests), coming here with a technical question. I want to automatically evaluate our tests. We provide broken IT infrastructure, engineer/candidate has to fix problems and then we check how the system was fixed. Our infrastructure is built on Kubernetes, but tests can be in the form of an isolated linux machine, Kubernetes environment or Cloud environment. Currently, automated evaluation is done only on endpoints - e.g. we check if some URL is working, DNS is correct, etc., whatever we can reach via network request. I can’t check if some files are present or those were changed. I am wondering if there is some software I am not aware of, I will share some ideas I have in mind:      1. I found https://kubeshop.github.io/testkube/test-types, b

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lumaks
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10 months ago
jennworks40
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Getting Started with reCAPTCHA Enterprise - Video link

 This is an interesting video I spotted on YouTube. I think it applies to DevSecOps. What do you all think?

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ilias
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10 months ago
jennworks40
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Software Delivery Shield

The biggest announcement from Google Cloud Next 2022 from a DevOps perspective is the general availability of the Software Delivery Shield security solution. Check out the blog post about it herehttps://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/introducing-software-delivery-shield-from-google-cloudand let us know what you think of this suite of tools designed as an end-to-end solution to protect software from security attacks along the entire software supply chain.What do you think about this toolset?

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10 months ago
jennworks40
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Google Cloud Next '22

Hi everyone! I wanted to make sure that everyone here is aware of the Google Cloud Next ‘22 conference happening virtually from October 11 - 13 this year. Registration is free and easy and the sessions should be fantastic. I’ll be dialed in, and I hope to see some folks from this community there as well! You can get more information and register by visiting the Google Cloud Next website https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/registerYou can view the full catalog of sessions here https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next/catalog#view-all once you’ve registered. There really are sessions for everyone!Check it out and post the session(s) you’re most excited for in this conversation!

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KateVysh
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11 months ago
ilias
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Strengthening your DevOps muscle

Do you want to learn about modern DevOps practices from DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment), the industry's longest running research program?Check the link below if you want to learn about the four key metrics of high performing software teams, lessons you can build on from our 2021 State of DevOps Report, outcomes you could achieve from high quality DevOps, and how to accelerate software delivery performance using Google Cloud tools.  3 ½ hours on demandKeynote: Driving business success with DevOps - 35 minutes Building software delivery pipelines - 25 minutes Running applications at autoscale - 30 minutes Reliable and blameless: Learning from SRE - 30 minutes Automating deployment operations - 30 minutes DevOps awards show - 60 minutes

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Alfons
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1 year ago
Alfons
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2022 Technology Trends in the Google Cloud Customer Community

For the very first time, C2C in partnership with Google Cloud, conducted a research study to better understand cloud users and how they interact with different cloud providers at their organizations. We had a very diverse reach of participants from different industries, organization types, decision roles, and educational backgrounds. Interested to see the trends among your peers? Download Report : https://www.c2cglobal.com/c2c-research-report-august-2022

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ScottBeeker
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1 year ago
jennworks40
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Google Cloud Deploy enhancements now available!

Have you seen the blog post just published today about Google Cloud Deploy and the enhancements that are now available? If you haven’t, go check it out! Thanks to the work of the Google Cloud Deploy team, continuous software deployment to GKE is getting easier to manage.Google Cloud Deploy was only released to general availability in January 2022, and the team is actively enhancing its capabilities. In this update, Google Cloud Deploy has added auto generation of a Skaffold configuration for single manifest applications. This is a nice jump start for teams who aren’t familiar with Skaffold.Delivery management improvements include the ability to pause a pipeline temporarily, and to abandon a release. Release Inspector is a shiny new difference comparison tool that enables users to more easily review application manifests.From an enterprise perspective, this update allows you to deploy Google Cloud Deploy delivery pipelines and target resources using Google Cloud Platform’s Terraform pro

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malamin
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1 year ago
dineshnithyan
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Measure your Service/Api using Apdex score

Practical approach to implementing Apdex alerts in PrometheusWhy Apdex?Apdex provides a single number that attempts to quantify a user’s experience of requests to a web service. We first decide what we consider to be an acceptable response time from our service, in Apdex terminology this is called the T value. We then classifies requests as follows:All error responses are intolerable. All responses qucker than T are satisfactory. All responses slower than T, but quicker than 4T are tolerable. All responses slower than 4T are intolerable.The Apdex score for a service, over a given time, is a ratio of intolerable vs satisfactory and tolerable responses.apdex = (satisfactory + (tolerable / 2)) / totalHigh error rates and slow response times will result in a lower Apdex score. By encapsulating errors and high latency in a single metric Apdex attempts to quantify our users experience of our service as a single number. Since a low Apdex score implies either high rates of errors or undesirabl

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ilias
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1 year ago
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How is ip-masq-agent DaemonSet created?

Hi all,I’ve recently created several GKE clusters through some custom Terraform code. However, by default it looks like NAT-ing from the pod network is not enabled which is not desirable. So I found this article on how to enable it:https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/ip-masquerade-agent#how_ipmasq_works Which did the trick just fine. However, I can’t seem to find a way to enable this during the cluster creation. I’d prefer not to have to add in the daemonset and configmap after the cluster is created. Is there any way to configure this as part of the cluster creation through Terraform? Also, this is a private cluster and I do not have access to the cluster through kubectl from where I’m running Terraform. Thanks!

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Dimitris Petrakis
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1 year ago
malamin
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Enhance productivity and DevOps with the Kubernetes Gateway API

Abhinav Rau,  Principal Architect and  Madhav Sathe Customer Engineer  both are at Google will discuss about Kubernetes can be a cornerstone of DevOps and developer productivity, but the legacy ingress and controller architectures are fragmented with limited portability across different implementations. In this session, we’ll introduce you to the new Kubernetes Gateway API and show you how features like traffic splitting and continuous microservice delivery boosts productivity while implementing stronger DevOps practices. To join this session , Please check the following link:https://cloudonair.withgoogle.com/events/innovators-enhance-productivity-devops 

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