October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
520 pages
13h 5m
English
Our backend requirements are pretty clear. We need to provide autoscaling and store the game state. Due to security requirements, we have to run a hardened Linux image. We should note that, by hardened image, we mean an image that has been customized to limit potential vulnerabilities. The solution concept has already told us they plan to use Compute Engine instances for the backend, so the obvious choice to meet our scaling needs is to use instance groups. Additionally, this gives us the option to use a custom image to meet our security requirements. The following diagram shows a high-level diagram of this solution:

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