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Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

You're reading from   Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions Develop scalable applications from scratch and make them globally available in almost any language

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Product type Course
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838647438
Length 778 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (29) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Why GCP? FREE CHAPTER 2. The Google Cloud Console 3. APIs, CLIs, IAM, and Billing 4. Google App Engine 5. Google Kubernetes Engine 6. Google Cloud Functions 7. Google Compute Engine 8. NoSQL with Datastore and Bigtable 9. Relational Data with Cloud SQL and Cloud Spanner 10. Google Cloud Storage 11. Stackdriver 12. Change Management 13. GCP Networking for Developers 14. Messaging with Pub/Sub and IoT Core 15. Integrating with Big Data Solutions on GCP 16. Compute 17. Storage and Databases 18. Networking 19. Security 20. Machine Learning and Big Data 21. Management Tools 22. Best Practices 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The App Engine flexible environment


As mentioned earlier in this chapter, the App Engine flexible environment is an attempt to find some middle ground between the flexibility of traditional virtual machines and the convenience of the App Engine standard environment. Developers are able to assume control over the underlying infrastructure when needed, and fall back on the more traditional aspects of a managed platform when control is not needed.

Benefits of the flexible environment

There are a number of advantages of using the flexible environment over the standard environment. The following are a few of the major benefits, though the list is not comprehensive.

More control over the infrastructure

In the flexible environment, each service is packaged as a Docker image. App Engine runs services as containers based on these images, each running in a dedicated Compute Engine VM. This provides developers with three levels of infrastructure to manage applications—the application layer, the container...

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