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Why we migrated Orbitera to managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform

By Eyal Manor, Vice President of Engineering, Google Cloud

Google Cloud acquired Orbitera last fall, and already we’ve hit a key milestone: completing the migration of the multi-cloud commerce platform from AWS to Google Container Engine, our managed Kubernetes environment.

This is a real testament to the maturity of Kubernetes and Container Engine, which in less than two years, has emerged as the most popular managed container orchestrator service on the market, powering Google Cloud’s own services as well as customers such as Niantic with Pokemon Go.

Founded in 2012, Orbitera originally built its service on an extensive array of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS and RedShift, and weighed the pros and cons of migrating to various Google Cloud compute platforms — Google Compute Engine, Google App Engine or Container Engine. Ultimately, migrating to Container Engine presented Orbitera with the best opportunity to modernize its service and move from a monolithic architecture running on virtual machines to a microservices-based architecture based on containers.

The resulting service allows Orbitera ISV partners to easily sell their software in the cloud, by managing the testing, provisioning and ongoing billing management of their applications across an array of public cloud providers.

Running on Container Engine is proving to be a DevOps management boon for the Orbitera service. With Container Engine, Orbitera now runs in multiple zones with three replicas in each zone, for better availability. Container Engine also makes it easy to scale component microservices up and down on demand as well as deploy to new regions or zones. Operators roll out new application builds regularly to individual Kubernetes pods, and easily roll them back if the new build behaves unexpectedly.

Meanwhile, as a native Google Cloud service, the container management service integrates with multiple Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as Cloud SQL load balancers, and Google Stackdriver, whose alerts and dashboards allow Orbitera to respond to issues more quickly and more efficiently.

Going forward, running on Container Engine positions Orbitera to take advantage of more modular microservices and APIs and rapidly build out new services and capabilities for customers. That’s a win for enterprises who depend on Orbitera to provide a seamless, consistent and easy way to manage software running across multiple clouds, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.

Stay tuned for a technical deep dive from the engineering team that performed the migration, where they’ll share lessons learned, and tips and tricks for performing a successful migration to Container Engine yourself. In the meantime, if you have questions about Container Engine, you can find us on our Slack channel.
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Corey Lewandowski’s Potential Clients Say He’s Bragging About Access To Trump's Twitter Account

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski

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WASHINGTON — The former campaign manager for President Donald Trump's White House bid has told prospective lobbying clients that he has access to Trump&039;s Twitter account, four sources told BuzzFeed News.

In discussions with representatives from at least two different potential clients — Facebook and financial company Blackstone Group — Lewandowski mentioned having access to Trump&039;s Twitter account as a selling point, according to different sources who were briefed on each meeting by participants. Sources also said Lewandowski brought up the same thing in additional meetings as well, but it&039;s unclear which other companies he was courting when he made the same claim.

In emails, Lewandowski repeatedly denied he mentioned access to Trump&039;s Twitter account or that he met with anyone at either of those companies. “I know facts don&039;t matter to buzz feed but it&039;s not true,” he wrote. On questions about his meeting with Facebook, he simply said: “Never.” And regarding any talks with Blackstone, he said: “I never met Blackstone. Please make sure you accurately report that! I doubt you will.”

It was unclear to one of the sources briefed by the meeting participants whether Lewandowski was saying he actually has access to the account, or just that he has the ear of Trump and his digital staff.

A White House official told BuzzFeed News that Lewandowski “does not have access” to Trump&039;s Twitter account.

Those in the room who were expecting a detailed government relations pitch were taken aback by the claim, two sources familiar with the meetings said.

“It wasn&039;t a question of whether they believed him or not,” one of the sources said. “It was as weird as him walking into the office and saying, &039;I like chocolate.&039;”

Ed Brookover, who recently joined Lewandowski&039;s firm, said he had never heard the claim. “And we don&039;t discuss what we say in pitch meetings,” he said.

The companies too did not want to comment on the meetings, despite sources who were briefed confirming that meetings with individuals from those companies occurred.

Facebook declined to comment on whether they met with Lewandowski, but confirmed that he is not working for them.

And a Blackstone Group spokesperson said the firm did not engage in discussions about services from his new firm. Asked a follow-up, broader question about any meetings with Lewandowski at all, the spokesperson repeated the same previous response.

Blackstone Group CEO Steve Schwarzman is the chairman of Trump&039;s strategic and policy forum.

Trump&039;s Twitter account has been central to his campaign and his presidency so far. The president makes policy announcements and responds to world events and criticism all through Twitter.

Trump has also gone after specific companies using his Twitter account, making corporate America nervous about their stock prices potentially crashing with a single tweet.

Lewandowski recently joined with another former Trump staffer, Barry Bennett, to open Avenue Strategies. Bennett was also Ben Carson&039;s campaign manager last year.

Lewandowski, a hard-charging New Hampshire operative, has been touting his access to Trump — along with his firm&039;s physical proximity to the White House — for weeks.

The pair told Bloomberg Businessweek they&039;ve already signed several clients since opening up their shop in December and disputed that their new roles conflict with Trump&039;s “drain the swamp” campaign message.

“I think what Donald Trump said was, Washington lobbyists have used their special access to the detriment of the American people,” Lewandowski said in the interview. “Our goal here is to help companies grow and expand, which falls directly in line with the goals of this administration.”

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