How to choose the best compute option in the Google cloud platform (GCP)
GCP offers a plethora of compute options to choose from, this article attempts to demystify that!
Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything.
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) offers many options to run workloads in cloud seamlessly. The options vary from a range of compute services that go from giving users full control (i.e., Compute Engine) to highly abstracted (i.e., Firebase and Cloud Functions), letting Google take care of more and more of the management and operations along the way.
Most of the cloud folks follow below strategy :
If you’re used to managing VMs and want a similar experience in the cloud, pick Compute Engine. If you use containers and need to coordinate more than one container in your solution, you can abstract away some of the necessary management overhead by using Container Engine. If you want to focus on your code and avoid the infrastructure pieces entirely, use App Engine. Finally, if you want to focus purely on code and build microservices that expose API endpoints for your applications, use Firebase and Cloud Functions.
