Compute Engine documentation

Compute Engine documentation

Overview

Training and tutorials

Use cases

Code samples

Videos

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

Guides

• About machine families

• Choose a deployment strategy

• Create and start a VM

• About SSH connections

• Choose a migration path

• Data protection options

• VM instance lifecycle

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Reference

• gcloud compute command-line tool

• Client libraries

• REST API

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Resources

• Pricing

• Quotas and limits

• Release notes

• Support

• Samples & videos

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Training and tutorials

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Training

VM migration hands-on lab

Get hands-on practice with Google's current solution set for VM assessment, planning, migration, and modernization.

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Training

Networking in Google Cloud hands-on lab

Set up a load balanced application on Google Cloud.

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Tutorial

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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Training

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

Explore use cases, reference architectures, whitepapers, best practices, and industry solutions.

Use case

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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Best practice

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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Best practice

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

Dive into coding with examples that demonstrate how to use and connect Google Cloud services.

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C# samples

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

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Go samples

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

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Java samples

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

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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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Python samples

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

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Ruby samples

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

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Videos

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