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Compute Engine is a computing and hosting service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. Compute Engine offers scale, performance, and value that lets you easily launch large compute clusters on Google's infrastructure. There are no upfront investments, and you can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that offers quick, consistent performance. Learn more

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VM migration: planning

Learn how to plan a VM migration and deploy your basic infrastructure on Google Cloud.

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Training and tutorials

A tour of Cloud Networking

Get an overview of Google Cloud networking building blocks.

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Training and tutorials

Interactive walkthrough: Create a Linux VM in Compute Engine

Create a Linux VM by using a tutorial that walks you through the steps directly in the Cloud console.

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Hosting a web app on Compute Engine hands-on lab

Learn how to deploy and scale a sample application.

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Use cases

VM migration

Migrate for Compute Engine allows you to easily migrate VMs from your on-premises data center, AWS, or Azure into Compute Engine. You validate, run, and migrate applications into Google Cloud without rewriting them, modifying the image, or changing management processes.

Migration On-Prem Automation

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Use cases

Patterns for scalable and resilient apps

Learn patterns and practices for creating apps that are resilient and scalable, two essential goals of many modern architecture exercises. A well-designed app scales up and down as demand increases and decreases, and is resilient enough to withstand service disruptions.

Scaling Resilience Design

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Use cases

Strategies to migrate IBM Db2 to Compute Engine

Learn best practices for a homogeneous Db2 migration to Compute Engine. This document is intended for database admins, system admins and software, database, and ops engineers who are migrating Db2 environments to Google Cloud.

IBM dB2 Migration

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Code Samples
Code Samples

C# samples

A set of .NET Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Go samples

A set of Go Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Java samples

A set of Java Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Node.js samples

A set of Node.js Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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PHP samples

A set of PHP Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Python samples

A set of Python Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Ruby samples

A set of Ruby Cloud Client Library samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

Terraform samples

A set of Terraform samples for Compute Engine.

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Code Samples

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