Building Google Cloud Platform Solutions

Runtime Configurator

Configuration management tools like Cloud Deployment Manager generally describe environments in terms of discrete resources such as networks and servers. This approach works well when resources can be defined in a static manner—the servers exist or they do not, the network is correctly configured or it is not. These tools take a similar static approach when working with resources such as web services, primarily introducing changes by deploying new versions of services.

In practice, services often must adapt their behavior at runtime in response to changes in their environment. To address this need, Google provides Runtime Configurator, a managed feature of Cloud Deployment Manager designed to maintain dynamic configuration ...