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Re:Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy by JoshTriplett on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:02PM (#24023432)
> GCP's support for urgent issues and product feature requests has been somewhat reliable and predictable.

Can you give an example of a product feature request that succeeded via that support channel?

Re:Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy by pm90 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:43PM (#24023749)
- we had requested some way of being able to remove IAM permissions that went stale. GCP introduced a “recommendations” feature that indicates which IAM roles have been unused for a long time and can safely be removed.

- we requested a way to prohibit the provision of ILBs on shared VPC subnets without explicit grants; GCP introduced a role for that

- we had issues with the number of compute instances being too high on our VPC and reaching limits because of the number of vpc peerings. In the past, every GKE cluster created a new peering. We have a bunch of GKE clusters, and as we added more the Max number of instances we could provision was reduced significantly. GCP introduced and fast tracked a feature that enabled all GKE clusters to use a single peering rather than create a peer per GKE cluster.

There’s a bunch more. But on this front I have been a happy customer.

Re:Migrating Dropbox from Nginx to Envoy by JoshTriplett on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:45PM (#24023764)
Thanks for the details!