{"id":10672,"date":"2019-05-03T12:23:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?page_id=10672"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:40:26","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T22:40:26","slug":"goggle-cloud-platform-compute-engine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?page_id=10672","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google advertises &#8220;sustained use discounts&#8221; on its Compute Engine service. They mention on their documentation this: &#8220;we automatically give you discounted prices&#8221; for workloads that are long-running.    The Compute Engine uses a worldwide fiber network, where customers can set up virtual servers within clusters with ease. Again, they emphasize server load-balancing and fail-over, so multiple servers can provide the work while set up of these virtual instances in multiple locations [regions, zones] provides for fail-over in the event that one region goes down: although rare, it does happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Goggle Cloud Platform offers a plethora of services within their cloud admin interface. I started with Compute Engine, doing a quickstart Cluster set up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"793\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub1.jpg 793w, https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub1-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub1-768x389.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The set up is super fast. It is a simple cluster pool. Of course, most clusters would be at least a little bigger than this, and in fact could be huge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10674\" width=\"975\" height=\"375\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The real strength to these Compute Engine clusters of VM instances is grouping. Having groups of these clusters of multiple virtual instances provides the true fail-over and load balancing that is so essential to businesses and organizations worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Kub3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10675\" width=\"700\" height=\"200\"\/><figcaption><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?page_id=10679\">Up Next: Google Compute Engine, Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google advertises &#8220;sustained use discounts&#8221; on its Compute Engine service. They mention on their documentation this: &#8220;we automatically give you discounted prices&#8221; for workloads that are long-running. The Compute Engine uses a worldwide fiber network, where customers can set up virtual servers within clusters with ease. Again, they emphasize server load-balancing and fail-over, so multiple &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riguy.com\/?page_id=10672\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Cloud Platform Compute Engine: Part 2&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":10666,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10672","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10760,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10672\/revisions\/10760"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}