Google Cloud Next 2025

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Guardrail Gauntlet

Welcome to the Google Cloud Next 2025 challenge: the Guardrail Gauntlet! Winners are entered for a chance to receive a Steam Deck.

To participate, write and submit a Guardrail for a Google Cloud resource. To enter the challenge:

1. If you haven't yet, sign up for a free account of Resourcely

2. Navigate to the Foundry and click Author Guardrail

3. Write a valid Guardrail featuring a Google Cloud resource*

   1. The Guardrail must feature one of the following statements: IN, CONTAINS, MATCHES, EVERY, SOME, NO, AND, OR, HAS, or CONTEXT

4. Submit a screenshot of your Guardrail along with your name via email to [e-mail].

*The written Guardrail must be valid, meaning that it must be tested for both a failing and passing condition within the Developer Experience tab of the Foundry.

Drawings of valid Guardrails will take place daily at 4p PT for a Steam Deck.

Inspiration for Guardrails

Need to be inspired? Try to write some Guardrails for the following:

• Require VMs can only be a subset of instance sizes

• Require BigQuery datasets have an access.dataset property

• Limit Cloud Run jobs to use 2 CPU and 1024 MB of memory

• Force Firebase databases to have an aggressive deletion policy