Creating scalable solutions with GCE
While many applications of Compute Engine may involve only one or a few dedicated VMs, many large-scale solutions involve the creation, management, and orchestration of large numbers of instances. This is where Compute Engine's emphasis on scalability and automation become apparent. Compute Engine provides a number of mechanisms for building very high-scale solutions, such as creating fleets of VMs, coordinating those VMs, and managing them with high levels of availability.
Custom images
In addition to public and third-party images, Compute Engine offers support for creating and managing custom images. Custom images are project-level resources, allowing teams to maintain private images that can be heavily configured for specific use cases. There are a few ways to create custom images, including generation from a persistent disk, copying an existing image, and importing images in RAW format. The process of preparing and importing images in RAW format is...
