Implementing Modern DevOps

Custom machines and GPU processing

Sometimes, we need an extra amount of something on our machines, which is usually not in the predefined machine instances of other providers, but in this case, Google Cloud Platform comes to the rescue with an amazing feature: custom machine types.

With custom machine types in Google Cloud Platform, we can get the benefit of the upgraded hardware of the large machines in a resource-modest machine or create specific configurations that suit our needs.

One of the best examples that we can find for custom machines is when we want to add some GPU processing to our mix. In Google Cloud, GPUs can be attached to any non-shared (f1 or g1) machine on demand. With the ability to create our custom machine types, we ...