Broad Institute and Platinum Customers with Lukas Karlsson and Mike Altarace

Published: July 19, 2017, 1:07 a.m.

Francesc and Mark are joined this week by Lukas Karlsson from Broad Institute and Mike Altarace from Google Cloud Platform to discuss the Platinum Customer relationship with Google Cloud Platform.

About Lukas Karlsson

Lukas has been working at the Broad in various roles over the last fourteen years or so. He now run our cloud architecture and strategy and works in developer relations, advocating for the software developers who consume our services.

About Mike Altarace

Mike has been a Strategic Customer Engineer (SCE, pronounced Ski) assigned to the Broad Institute for over a year. He\u2019s been working with Broad on all manners of operating their GCP environment. All is on the table, technical issues, billing, shared events, certifications.

Cool things of the week
  • Google Cloud Platform now open in London blog gdpr
  • Container Engine now runs Kubernetes 1.7 to drive enterprise-ready secure hybrid workloads blog
  • Marvin is a go-kit server for Google App Engine github
  • Google Container Builder Part 1 (Cloud Rolling Update) youtube podcast
Interview
  • Broad Institute site
  • Google Cloud Storages home docs
  • Pre-emptible Virtual Machines site docs
  • Google Cloud Platinum Support support
  • Customer Reliability Engineers podcast
  • Gaining full control over your organization\u2019s cloud resources (Google Cloud Next \u201817) youtube
Question of the week

If I want to run a single node development Kubernetes cluster, and I don\u2019t want to pay for a Network LoadBalancer as well - how do I expose services?

  • NodePort Services docs
  • Configure a static IP for a Ingress Service docs
Where can you find us next?

Francesc will be at the July GoSF Meetup.

Mark will be speaking at Pax Dev and then attending Pax West right after.