Highlights via Twitter, mostly https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower . Like with any pres. like this, a lot is in the details and you're likely to get more juice out of docs than the slides, and an added disclaimer that I haven't been using GCE and some of this may be old stuff they just talked about today, not actual new hotness.
- AWS-style "Autoscaler". https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/v1beta2/ (They tried to demo activating an autoscaling group by voice. Didn't work. The first rule of demos is never ever rely on voice recognition in a demo.)
- "Container Engine" to simplify deploying Docker images to your VMs--still your VMs, not some kind of container-hosting-replacing-virtual-hosting situation. It's alpha--open but no SLA or pricing yet (free for now). https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/
- They name-dropped that Netflix is using GCE as well as EC2, and that they're integrating Firebase into GCE.
With the Managed VM and Container Engine releases today, is there now a way for frontend Python GAE apps and backend Java GAE/GCE apps to share the same development server (esp datastore, taskqueue)?
This was already possible by using multiple modules within a single project. Each module can be written in a different language and all modules use same datastore, taskqueue, etc.
Oh, sorry missed that "development" part. I'm afraid it's not possible. When it comes to managed vms, python local dev server is still not available(java is), so there is no way to know if using same local server will be possible.
I just asked this in #google-containers IRC channel, and ~isdal chimed in to say this is now possible -- "The new gcloud SDK allows you to run multiple docker containers at the same time with all of them sharing the same datastore (and other APIs".
"Cloud Platform Live" is an event focussed on Google Cloud Platform, the umbrella brand which includes as products things like Google Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud SQL, Datastore, etc.
- moar price cuts (notably, network SSD storage price roughly /= 2): https://twitter.com/googlecloud/status/529684624747032576
- faster local SSD access for 21 cents/gig/month. https://cloud.google.com/pricing/ (search for "Local SSD")
- AWS-style "Autoscaler". https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler/v1beta2/ (They tried to demo activating an autoscaling group by voice. Didn't work. The first rule of demos is never ever rely on voice recognition in a demo.)
- "Container Engine" to simplify deploying Docker images to your VMs--still your VMs, not some kind of container-hosting-replacing-virtual-hosting situation. It's alpha--open but no SLA or pricing yet (free for now). https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/
- They name-dropped that Netflix is using GCE as well as EC2, and that they're integrating Firebase into GCE.