Summary of new GCP features announced at Google Cloud Next

From local time on July 24, 2018, Google has a conference " Google Cloud Next " on the cloud at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. What kind of announcement was made in the keynote on the first day was summarized in the official blog.

What happened at Google Cloud Next '18
https://www.blog.google/products/google-cloud/next18-recap/

You can check the lecture on Youtube's Google Cloud channel .

Google Cloud Next '18 Keynote Recap - YouTube


Google announced the Google Services Platform as a service that provides advanced operational management capabilities to the cloud and on-premises IT environments. This service includes the following functions.

- Service mesh - Service mesh is to control communication between micro services with a unified mechanism independent of language, and Google Services Platform adopts open source 'Istio'. We also offer "Apigee API Management for Istio" which enables us to operate Istio's micro service using existing corporate API management tools.

· Hybrid Computing - Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a service for managing containers, but announced GKE On-Prem as a service that enables this Kubernetes cluster to run in on-premises environments. Users will be able to use the same environment in the cloud and on-premises.

· Policy management
GKE Policy Management appeared to establish a single policy to manage the load of Kubernetes.

· Operation tool <br> New Stackdriver Monitoring provides service graph showing service, communication method and dependency of the whole environment in real time, monitoring service level objectives, and combining signals of specific services into one We will also provide dashboards.

· Serverless Computing - Knative, which provides middleware components for building environments where container-based applications can run anywhere, such as on-premises, clouds, and third-party data centers, has appeared.

· Developer tools
Cloud Build has appeared as a CI / CD platform. When changes are added to the source repository such as Github, it can be set to automatically build, test, and deploy.

In addition, as announcing to serverless , we announced support for new runtime of PHP and Python in App Engine standard environment and access to Cloud Firestore of Firebase from GCP.

In the official blog of Google's programming language 'Go', the Go Cloud project was announced that makes it easy to transplant between clouds. The project will provide a library that separates the application from the cloud-specific API so that it can write more portable and simple code.

In addition, in relation to AI , "Providing tools that can leverage machine learning regardless of skill level and expertise", Cloud AutoML Vision and Cloud Natural Language which extended the ML model to meet specific needs, Cloud Natural Language , Cloud Translation and, TPU V3s of ASIC chip, which is designed for machine learning, to provide an interactive interface Dialogflow such as has emerged.

Also, in G Suite , smart reply function that assists Hangouts chat and reply to e-mail will appear, security features will be updated. You can see the image of the new G Suite by looking at the following movie.

G Suite - Work Reimagined - YouTube


Google Cloud Next '18 will be held at local time for three days from 24th July to 26th July. Also, Google Cloud Next '18 in Tokyo is going to be held in Tokyo for two days from September 19th and 20th, 2018.