#gcp (2023-08)

If you are okay with anything at anytime possibly getting sunset

LOL I just got a similar sentiment over at hangops slack

While technically not GCP, I’m still miffed that they pawned off Google Domains to square space. We had one customer that just finished migrating their domains to Google, now they are transfer locked for 60 days

Along with their managed services being subpar like they offer SQL rollover but then don’t use that rollover during their own forced upgrade windows and cause end users to be powerless over downtime with the exception of setting a “maintenance window”

I’ve been using GCP as my primary cloud provider for two years and at least weekly I dream of greener pastures of going back to AWS

The fact that this thread is 2 months old and is the second newest post in the channel should say a lot

Also, unlike AWS where they start their managed service at ceiling price and lower it with increased utilization, Google goes the opposite route and continually adds to cost for their services

It’s a foot in the door salesman approach nightmare

Super helpful, thanks @timduhenchanter

You’re welcome. I had to restrain myself from the flood of thoughts of continually lambasting their product in this thread. Good luck to you, whatever you choose. GKE is better than EKS so I can at least give Google a +1 somewhere…

lol. Well, we’re chilling at AWS for the foreseeable future. What we were looking at is running compute for our data science team (on Databricks) on GCP. Potentially other vendors where the control plane is a SaaS product but the compute runs in our env. Our GitLab executors are another example. So just straight-up compute is what I’m looking at, no services, no databases

Yeah offering the product through multiple providers to clients as compute instances will be beneficial. You will have to deal with some unique GCPisms like project distribution and their take on networking, etc… but overall that will be a lot more painless

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) I don’t think it’s a fair sentiment that GCP products will get sunset. What have you seen sunset in GCP?

not counting Google Domains as that was Alphabet doing Alphabet things. But within GCP itself, what has been removed that people use?

I’m happy to plead ignorance on this as it relates to GCP. We’ve personally been bit by Google Hire and Google Domains, which admittedly may not be part of GCP. IMO, Google as a company is ruthless when it comes to sunsetting products. I don’t question the business sense of doing it, just sucks when you’re one of the people that use the product, regardless of the products success.

I get the vibe from our TAM that GCP had no idea that Google Domains was being sold. And by then it was too late to tell them how dumb it was

Personally though I’m quite comfortable with the risk of anything that’s owned by GCP won’t have the rug pulled out from it.

Good question, I’m keen to know too

I think it involves validating the user token

https://stackoverflow.com/a/74195447

curl -s [https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo?id_token=$(gcloud](https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/tokeninfo?id_token=$(gcloud) auth print-identity-token)

Maybe something like this? I haven’t tested it