Professional Cloud Architect – Google Cloud Certification Guide

Node affinity labels

Sole tenancy was introduced to GCE in 2018 and is physical Compute Engine server designed for your dedicated use. In other words, the underlying host hardware and hypervisor handles only your GCE instances. A use case for this setup could be security requirements. Many companies have compliance or regulations that require a physical separation of their compute resources.

The following diagram shows this split. We can see that, on the left-hand side, different customers share the same hardware but, on the right-hand side, we have dedicated hardware for this specific customer and only their VMs reside on it:

VMs will still ...