Running a Basic Web Server
Building Web Applications
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Globally Autoscaling a Web Service on Compute Engine
Set up a globally available web service with regional Compute Engine managed instance groups that automatically scale and automatically balance the load to meet capacity needs.
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Building Scalable and Resilient Web Applications
Learn how to build scalable and resilient application architectures using patterns and practices that apply broadly to any web application.
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Interactive Tutorial for a To-Do Application
Learn how to start a Compute Engine virtual machine instance in the Google Cloud Platform Console and create a to-do application using Node.js, and MongoDB.
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Deploy an ASP.NET Application
How to deploy an ASP.NET application from a Windows development environment to a Google Compute Engine instance running Windows Server 2012 R2.
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Invoking Legacy Code
This page describes an architectural pattern for invoking legacy code using Google App Engine, Google Compute Engine, and Google Cloud Pub/Sub, and provides an example implementation of the pattern.
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Monte Carlo Methods using Google Cloud Dataproc and Apache Spark
Google Cloud Dataproc and Apache Spark provide infrastructure and capacity that you can use to run Monte Carlo simulations written in Java, Python, or Scala.
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Set Up Remote Access to MySQL on Google Compute Engine
Configure your MySQL server application to accept remote traffic from a MySQL client that is installed on a Compute Engine instance on the same private network.
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Set up Active Directory on Google Compute Engine
Get Active Directory running on a Google Compute Engine instance easily and quickly.
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Setting up your host name for your website on Compute Engine
Learn how to set up the domain name service to point to a website hosted on Compute Engine.
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Setting up Drupal on Compute Engine
Get Drupal running on a virtual machine instance on Google Compute Engine easily in just a few minutes.
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Setting up Joomla! on Google Compute Engine
Configure Joomla on a Debian virtual machine instance using a LAMP stack.
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Setting up LAMP on Google Compute Engine
Follow this tutorial to configure Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) on a Debian, Ubuntu, or CentOS instance.
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Setting up LEMP on Google Compute Engine
Configure Linux, NGINX, MySQL, and PHP (LEMP) on a Debian or Ubuntu instance.
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Setting up a Minecraft server on Google Compute Engine
Learn how to install, configure, and run a standard Minecraft server on Google Compute Engine.
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Set Up MySQL on Google Compute Engine
Learn about the different MySQL options available to Compute Engine. Also, learn how to set up standard MySQL on a Compute Engine instance.
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Set Up PostgreSQL on Google Compute Engine
How to configure PostgreSQL on an Ubuntu virtual machine instance on Compute Engine.
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Set Up a New Persistent Disk for PostgreSQL Data
Add a separate persistent disk for your PostgreSQL database in just a few minutes.
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Set Up PostgreSQL for High Availability and Replication with Hot Standby
Configure PostgreSQL to run in Hot Standby mode on Google Cloud Platform.
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Transferring files to your hosting server on Compute Engine
Learn how to transfer files from your local machine to a Compute Engine instance.
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Using Istio with Compute Engine
Learn how to add Compute Engine instances to an Istio mesh.
Load Balancing
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Network Load Balancing
This guide demonstrates a basic load balancing scenario where you have multiple web servers on Compute Engine instances that you want to balance the traffic across based on IP address, port, and protocol.
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Creating Content-Based Load Balancing
Create an HTTP(S) load balancer that distributes traffic to different instances based on URL path.
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Creating Cross-Region Load Balancing
Create an HTTP(S) load balancer that forwards traffic to instances in two different regions.
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HTTPS Load Balancing using NGINX and Google Compute Engine
Set up an NGINX-based HTTP/S load balancer.
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Cross-Region Load Balancing using Microsoft IIS Backends
Learn how to use Google Compute Engine's HTTP(S) load balancer service to distribute traffic to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web servers across different Compute Engine regions.
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Internal Load Balancing using HAProxy on Google Compute Engine
Use HAProxy on a dedicated Compute Engine instance to distribute HTTP requests across a set of three Compute Engine instances running the Apache web server.
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Autoscaled Internal Load Balancing using HAProxy and Consul on Compute Engine
Use Consul by HashiCorp as part of an HAProxy-based, internal load-balancing system on Google Cloud Platform.
Load Testing
Batch Processing and Data Analysis
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Real-time logs analysis using Fluentd and BigQuery
Use BigQuery to perform queries on terabytes of logs in tens of seconds, allowing you to get the answers you need quickly to fix or improve your systems.
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Reliable Task Scheduling on Google Compute Engine
Build an application to reliably schedule tasks across a fleet of Compute Engine instances.
Windows
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Creating a High-Performance SQL Server Instance
Create a Compute Engine instance running SQL Server that is optimized for performance.
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Load Testing SQL Server Using HammerDB
Use the open source software HammerDB to load test a Compute Engine instance running SQL Server.
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Configuring SQL Server Availability Groups
If you run multiple SQL Server Enterprise instances on Compute Engine, you can configure those instances to use Windows Server Failover Clustering and SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups to support high availability and disaster recovery.
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Building a Microsoft SQL Server Always On Availability Group
If you’re a database administrator, Windows administrator, or developer, learn to build a Microsoft SQL Server environment that’s highly available by using Always On Availability Groups.
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Microsoft SQL Server Performance Tuning
Create a SQL Server database instance, and then use performance metrics to optimize its performance.
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Creating a Disaster Recovery Plan with SQL Server
Implement an inexpensive disaster recovery solution for Microsoft SQL Server.
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Running Windows Server Failover Clustering
Create a failover cluster with two VM nodes and an Active Directory domain server.
