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New and shiny
Three new things to know this week
Can we make it easier to securely access Cloud services from GKE? Yes, yes we can. Workload Identity has been a powerful way to map Kubernetes Service Accounts to IAM accounts to support granular access permissions. But it wasn’t trivial to set up. Now, GKE supports Workload Identity Federation which has half the steps and no impersonation. Read the docs!If you love writing SQL queries, this feature is not for you. Some of us need help writing SQL queries. The new “Help me code” tool in BigQuery Studio is now live. Create SQL queries based on natural language prompts. Helpful!MOAR cloud management APIs, please! Here’s one you all have been asking for. We just GA-ed our new Cloud Quotas API that you can use to programmatically adjust your quotas. Additional features coming, but this is a very useful API for those building automation for their cloud platform
Watch this
Supercharge vector search with Spanner. Learn about RAG architectures and how Spanner acts as a valid vector database.
Community cuts
Every week I round up some of my favorite links from builders around the Google Cloud-iverse. Want to see your blog or video in the next issue? Drop Richard a line!
Landing zones aren’t exciting to most, but you want to get it right. Darren’s been writing up a good series on landing zones, and this entry focuses on monitoring, logging, and billing. There’s wise advice to follow here if you care about a solid foundation to build upon.If you like YAML, you’ll like this post on controlling GKE traffic. Nikhil at Searce wrote up a post that explores how to use network policies to secure the traffic between pods. It’s a deep dive, with lots of examples in YAML, that’ll help you improve your security posture.Sometimes the easiest solution is the best one. Can you host an Angular app using nothing but a Storage bucket? Indeed you can. Sergio shows us how to host the app in Angular and route traffic via the Load Balancer.
Learn and grow
Three ways to build your cloud muscles this week
Java, Gemini, and LangChain, oh my! This is such a terrific codelab that will help you really understand how to stitch together a few key technologies to build an LLM app.How do you know what’s in your container without a bill of materials? Some new support for SBOMs (software bill of materials) just landed in Artifact Analysis and Artifact Registry, and it’s worth studying up on the topic.Infographics AND whitepapers? It’s my lucky day. This post has an infographic to help us consider AI security best practices, then links to an ungated report that goes into much more depth. Read and learn!
One more thing
New cloud cert for developers. Give it a try!
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