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Google Cloud Platform Administration

You're reading from   Google Cloud Platform Administration Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624350
Length 230 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ranjit Singh Thakurratan Ranjit Singh Thakurratan
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Preface 1. Introduction to Google Cloud Platform FREE CHAPTER 2. Google Cloud Platform Compute 3. Google Cloud Platform Storage 4. Google Cloud Platform Networking 5. Google Cloud Platform Containers 6. Google Cloud Platform Operations 7. Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security 8. Google Cloud Platform Billing 9. Google Cloud Platform Tools 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering that allows you to quickly deploy your applications. The app engine environment automatically scales your app up or down depending on the load. You can also customize the runtime and the operating system of your app engine using Docker files.

App engine offers two different environments, the flexible environment and the standard environment. Depending on your use case, you can choose to use both environments simultaneously for your application.

The following table summarizes the differences between the two environments:

Feature Flexible environment Standard environment
Instance startup time Minutes Seconds
Maximum request timeout 60 minutes 60 seconds
Background threads Yes Yes, with restrictions
Background processes Yes No
SSH debugging Yes No
Scaling Manual and automatic Manual, basic...
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