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.
Creating scalable solutions with GCE
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...
