October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
The Flexible environment uses GCE virtual machine instances. It also scales up and down automatically and distributes traffic using load balancing. However, it always requires at least a single instance to run. Starting the instances takes minutes, while in Standard environments, it takes seconds. The following execution environments are supported:
Note that the runtimes can be customized. You can even create your own runtime. This is done by supplying a custom Docker image or Dockerfile.
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