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Google Cloud Launcher simplifies running third party apps in the cloud

Monday, March 21, 2016

Cloud Launcher

Solutions are no more than a few clicks away. You can already access Cloud Launcher from within the Developers Console and we’ve now improved organization and search to make it even easier to find the solutions you need.

Find the right configuration and specs for a solution more easily. Every solution now features a customized set of pre-configuration options as well as ready-to-use defaults, enabling you to get started more easily.

Launcher solutions now use Google Cloud Deployment Manager, providing a complete view of all configuration aspects of your deployment in the Deployment Manager UI. Every solution’s unique template can now be downloaded and modified so you can compose them with other Google Cloud Platform, third party, or private templates, enabling you to create even more sophisticated solutions.

Production-grade solutions. More open source and commercial solutions now support both multi-VM and multi-resource deployments, ensuring the scale and reliability you require for production applications.

Receive automatic security notices for deployed solutions. You will now be automatically notified when a security update is available for one of your Cloud Launcher solutions, making it easier to stay secure.

Direct access to partner support. If you need help, you can now contact partner support directly through Cloud Launcher. We also provide a mechanism for partners to verify that inbound support requests are from verified buyers, ensuring that you get a timely response.

More solutions to choose from. We're also welcoming a number of new partners to Cloud Launcher, including SendGrid, Brocade, EnterpriseDB, StorReduce and Techila Technologies.

Deployment Manager can now be used to manage Cloud Launcher solutions.

Deploy powerful configurations using smart defaults, or modify using a simple wizard.

Cloud LauncherPosted by Anil Dhawan, Product Manager, Google Cloud Launcher

Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

NSDI ‘16Maglev1Google Compute Engine load balancingJupiter—active-passive

BorgGoogle Cloud Platformzero to one million requests per secondPosted by Daniel E. Eisenbud, Technical Lead, Maglev and Paul Newson, Developer Advocate (Maglev fan)

1 D. E. Eisenbud, C. Yi, C. Contavalli, C. Smith, R. Kononov, E. Mann-Hielscher, A. Cilingiroglu, B. Cheyney, W. Shang, and J. D. Hosein. Maglev: A Fast and Reliable Software Network Load Balancer, 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 16), 2016^↩

Google Compute Engine boosts high availability controls

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Autoscaler Managed Instance Groupsgeneral availability

here Posted by Jerzy Foryciarz, Product Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Calculating and searching 500 billion digits of Pi

Monday, March 14, 2016

Google Compute Engineeight 375GB Local SSDs per virtual machine instance

500 billion digits of Pi on Google Compute Engine in 44.9 hours

Google Cloud Platformgcloud command line tool

First, let’s set some variables to be used later. You’ll need to pick a zone to replace the ZONE variable.

export PROJECT=”YOUR_GCP_PROJECT"
export ZONE="us-central1-c"
export CORES="32"
export OUTPUT_DISK_SIZE="500GB"
export OUTPUT_DISK="out-${CORES}"
export INSTANCE="yc-${CORES}"

Next, create a large disk to hold the final output (500 billion digits will take up 500GB!)

$ gcloud compute disks create ${OUTPUT_DISK} \
 --project ${PROJECT} \
 --zone ${ZONE} \
 --size ${OUTPUT_DISK_SIZE} \
 --type pd-ssd

Then, create a Compute Engine instance with Local SSDs, the following command will attach 8 Local SSDs:

$ gcloud compute instances create ${INSTANCE} \
 --project ${PROJECT} \
 --zone ${ZONE} \
 --machine-type n1-highmem-${CORES} \
 --maintenance-policy TERMINATE \
 --image-project gce-nvme \
 --image nvme-backports-debian-7-wheezy-v20151104 \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --local-ssd interface=NVME \
 --disk name=${OUTPUT_DISK},device-name=${OUTPUT_DISK}

Once the instance is started, you can SSH into it with:

$ gcloud compute ssh ${INSTANCE} -zone ${ZONE}

Once you're in the newly created instance, you'll need to first format and mount all of the Local SSDs and the large persistent disk:

$ sudo su -
$ for i in `seq 0 7`; do \
  mkdir /mnt/${i}; \
  /usr/share/google/safe_format_and_mount \
   /dev/disk/by-id/google-local-ssd-${i} /mnt/${i}; \
done

$ mkdir /mnt/out
$ /usr/share/google/safe_format_and_mount \
   /dev/disk/by-id/google-${OUTPUT_DISK} \
   /mnt/out

Finally, install the latest version of y-cruncher onto that instance. You may want to install screen or tmux as well.

To calculate digits of Pi, here is the command line I used to start y-cruncher on the virtual machine:

$ export DIGITS=”500000000000"
$ ./y-cruncher custom pi -dec:${DIGITS} -hex:0 \
  -o /mnt/out -mode:swap -swap:raid0 \
  /mnt/0 /mnt/1 /mnt/2 /mnt/3 /mnt/4 /mnt/5 /mnt/6 /mnt/7

Searching Pi Digits (Preview!)Francesc CampoyJen TongSara RobinsonGoogle Cloud Bigtable

last yeary-crunchern1-highmem-32Compute Engine- Posted by Ray Tsang, Developer Advocate and Greg Wilson, Head of Developer Advocacy for Google Cloud Platform

Free online learning tool serves 200,000 requests per minute on Google Cloud Platform

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Quizlet

Google Cloud PlatformGoogle Compute Engine

Quizlet weekly unique visits since March 2008 in the U.S. (blue) and rest of world (grey).

Google BigQueryGoogle Cloud StorageWhat's the Best Cloud? Probably GCP- Posted by Courtney Buchanan, Customer Marketing Manager, Google Cloud Platform

Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in IT infrastructure

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Open Compute Projectshared detailsengaging the industryPosted by John Zipfel, Technical Program Manager, Google

Three ways to build Slack integrations on Google Cloud Platform

Tuesday, March 8, 2016

Slackmany teamsGoogle Cloud PlatformSlack samples repositorygit clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/slack-samples.gitSlack Apps

Using Slack for notifications from a Compute Engine instance Google Compute Enginethis guideSlack incoming webhooknotify samplegit clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/slack-samples.git
cd slack-samples/notifynano slack-hook
# paste in URL, write out, and exit
PAM_USER=$USER PAM_RHOST=testhost ./login-notify.sh

PAMsudo nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config"session optional pam_exec.so seteuid /etc/slack/login-notify.sh"
Building a bot and running it in Google Container EngineBeep BoopSlack Real Time Messaging APIGoogle Container EngineKuberneteskeep your bot runningmanage your secret tokensBotkitset up your development environmentbot sample directorygit clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/slack-samples.git
cd slack-samples/botgcloud container clusters create my-clusterSlack bot userKubernetes Secrets APIgenerate-secret.sh./generate-secret.sh MY-SLACK-TOKEN
kubectl create -f slack-token-secret.yamlproject IDexport PROJECT_ID=my-cloud-project-id
docker build -t gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/slack-bot .gcloud docker push gcr.io/${PROJECT_ID}/slack-botgenerate-rc.sh./generate-rc.sh $PROJECT_IDkubectl create -f slack-bot-rc.yamlkubectl get pods

Shut down and clean upkubectl delete -f slack-bot-rc.yamlgcloud container clusters delete my-cluster
Building a Slash command on Google App EngineApp EngineSlack slashsupport SSL with a valid certificateSSL for custom domainsfree tierGo on App EnginePythonJava¹PHPslash command samplegit clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/slack-samples.git
cd slack-samples/command/1-custom-integrationSlash Commandhttp://your-machine:8080/quotes/randomgoapp serve --host=0.0.0.0 with your Cloud Platform project ID in the following command and run:

goapp deploy -application ./

If you want to publish your command to be used by more than one team, you'll need to create a Slack App. This will give you an OAuth Client ID and Client secret. Plug these values into the config.go file of the App sample and deploy in the same way to get an "Add to Slack" button.

- Posted by Tim Swast, Developer Programs Engineer

1 Java is registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.^↩

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Google Cloud Launcher simplifies running third party apps in the cloud

Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking

Google Compute Engine boosts high availability controls

Calculating and searching 500 billion digits of Pi

Free online learning tool serves 200,000 requests per minute on Google Cloud Platform

Google joins Open Compute Project to drive standards in IT infrastructure

Three ways to build Slack integrations on Google Cloud Platform

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