tag: Google-Cloud · 5 items
- Platform/SRE — Plan: New GA managed service for Terraform execution on GCP could replace self-managed Terraform runners for platform teams standardized on GCP; evaluate whether to adopt Infrastructure Manager as the org’s Terraform execution layer this quarter.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: Shifts the build-vs-buy calculation for GCP Terraform execution toward a managed option, but no licensing, cost, or vendor-risk forcing function exists yet.
- Platform/SRE — Learn: GKE Standard CPU node pools can now upgrade nodes in-place (existing VM updated rather than replaced), reducing the risk of upgrades stalling due to resource unavailability. No action required — this is a beneficial default behavior change worth understanding before your next GKE node-pool upgrade cycle.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Signals: GA announcement
- Platform/SRE — Plan: GKE Standard’s GA increase to 512 pods per node (up from 256) doubles workload density but requires a /22 Pod CIDR block for nodes in the 257–512 range — evaluate whether your cluster IP address plan supports this before enabling denser node configurations.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: GKE’s doubled pod-density ceiling may shift cluster sizing and cost economics for teams running dense workloads; the new X5 48TB memory tier is worth noting only if the org operates SAP HANA at scale and previously hit the 32TB single-node ceiling.
- Signals: GA announcement
- Platform/SRE — Plan: A semver-major release that removes retired GCP service resources and changes provider defaults — teams running GCP workloads via Terraform should plan a version pin audit and config migration before upgrading, as breaking changes will surface at apply time. No forced deadline exists, but deferring widens the upgrade gap.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Skip
- Signals: deprecation mentioned (no explicit date found) · GA announcement · major release (8.0)
- Platform/SRE — Learn: Google’s managed Terraform execution service removes the need to self-host a Terraform backend or state management layer on GCP; worth evaluating if you run Terraform on GCP but no action required today.
- CI/CD — Skip
- Leader — Learn: A managed Terraform service from GCP could shift the build-vs-buy calculus on Terraform state/execution tooling, but no strategic decision is forced yet — file for next platform toolchain review.