Introduction to Computing in Google Cloud

Compute Engine is a service that provides virtual machines (VMs) that run on Google Cloud. This chapter details each of the compute options available in Google Cloud and when to use them. It discusses preemptible VMs and when they can help reduce cloud engineer' overall computing costs. In addition to having a project, VM instances have a zone assigned. Zones are data center–like resources, but they may consist of one or more closely coupled data centers. App Engine is a platform as a service compute service that provides a managed platform for running applications. Like VM instances, applications in App Engine are created within a project. App Engine provides two types of runtime environments: standard and flexible. Kubernetes is an open source tool created by Google for administering clusters of virtual and bare‐metal machines. Kubernetes Engine is Google Cloud's managed Kubernetes service. Cloud Run is a managed service for running containers.