Implementing Modern DevOps

Google App Engine

Up until now, we have been working with a side of DevOps called IaaS. Google Cloud platform also offers something called Platform as a Service (PaaS). In an IaaS model, we need not worry about the underlying infrastructure: provisioning machines, installing the software, patching the software. With Google App Engine (or any other major PaaS), we forget about the ops of our infrastructure and focus on the development of our application, leveraging the underlying infrastructure to Google. Instead of launching a machine and installing Java to run our Spring Boot-based application, we just specify that we want to run a Java application, and GCP takes care of everything else.

This product, the Google App Engine, fits the necessity ...