July 2018
Intermediate to advanced
506 pages
16h 2m
English
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Virtual machines on Google Compute Engine (GCE)
The fundamental resource of Compute Engine is (no surprise) virtual machines, generally referred to as Compute Engine instances. Compute Engine instances are composed of several components, including the following:
- A boot disk created from an image or snapshot
- Compute resources, including vCPU and RAM
- Additional persistent storage
- Network interfaces
- GPUs and local SSDs