Summary
In this chapter, we introduced GCP's IaaS offering – Compute Engine. This is a basic offering by Google and aligns with a traditional VM. We discussed how to deploy an instance and how to add to instance groups to scale our services automatically, so we can be confident now of how easy it is to get a VM instance running in GCP. Additionally, we looked at the various optional settings we can select when deploying a Compute Engine instance. We have also introduced containers and how VMware Engine can speed up the move to public cloud adoption. In the next chapter, we will move away from IaaS and introduce GKE.
