Google Cloud Platform for Developers

Runtime Configurator

The Google Cloud Deployment Manager service offers a wide range of features centered around deploying and managing services on Google Cloud. As part of this, Google has released the Deployment Manager Runtime Configurator, which allows developers to provide configuration values to running applications in the form of hierarchically structured key-value pairs, similar to the Compute Engine metadata server.

At the time of writing this book, the Runtime Configurator is in public beta. Developers may choose to use this service over the Compute Engine metadata server as it provides a consistent way to store and retrieve values across Google Cloud services, and can be tightly integrated into the build and release process when ...