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How to use CLI for Managed instance groups ?

We have been using the cloud console to manage the managed instance groups. Let us now learn how to use the command line interface to manage the instance groups. It is important to note that we need to set the…

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How to update managed instance group ?

You can gradually upgrade an instance in an instance group to a new instance template. This type of upgrade is called as Rolling upgrade. Let us say we have 10 instances running and we want to upgrade only 2 instances…

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What can instance groups do in Google Cloud?

Instance groups are used to manage a group of instances as a single entity. You can manage similar virtual machines having similar life cycles as a single unit. There are 2 types of instance group that you can create namely…

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Few additional commands in Google Cloud.

Below are few compute instance commands in gcloud.

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Command Structure in Gcloud simplified.

The typical Command Structure in Gcloud is “gcloud <group> <subgroup> <action>”. “Group” is usually the service you are working with like, compute, container, config or iam etc… “Subgroup” is the component we are referring to in the group. for example,…

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Command Line Interface of GCP

The Command line interface in GCP is called as Gcloud. Most GCP services can be managed from Gcloud. We can create, delete and update virtual machines, you can manage instance groups & databases etc… While there are some more service…

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Compute Engine Live Migration & best practices

Live Migration: When the host system in needs to be updated live migration of the virtual instance happens. The virtual instance is migrated to a different host system from the same zone. The properties of the instance do not change.…

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Billing, Discounts & keeping costs low on GCP.

sustained use discounts:

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Understanding instance templates and custom images in Google cloud

In this post we will discuss about instance templates & Custom images in GCP. If you work for a major company, chances are that you will be creating similar type of virtual instance multiple times. It will use the same…

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Startup script on GCP Virtual instance in Simple terms

Let us talk about startup script on Gcp virtual instance. I am creating a new Virtual instance & leaving most of the defaults & allow http traffic on firewall so that I can ssh