Marketplace solutions

Google Cloud Marketplace is a catalog of third-party software that is integrated with Google Cloud Platform and ready to deploy in just a few clicks. The Google Cloud ecosystem is broad and consists of many products. However, some of them might not be available as native solutions. For example, let’s say you have been using GitLab in the past and would like to use it in Google Cloud. Google Cloud offers its products with Git functionality, but you need to use certain features from GitLab and don’t want to deploy it yourself.

In that case, Google Cloud Marketplace comes to the rescue:

Figure 7.40 – Google Cloud Marketplace

The preceding screenshot shows that there are various options to choose from. In the search field, you can type in the product or solution you want to use, and within a few clicks, it will be up and running.

Marketplace solution deployment

Let’s go through a sample Marketplace solution...