Best Practices for Managing Compute Engine VM Instances
summary
Covers concrete Compute Engine features and numbers: custom machine types let you pick exact vCPUs and RAM; preemptible VMs cut costs up to 80% for fault‑tolerant jobs; memory‑optimized machines reach 3.8 TB RAM; sole‑tenant nodes hit GA in August for dedicated hosts. Live demo provisions 100 VMs in 41 seconds and ~1,000 VMs in under two minutes. Also: scheduled snapshots (hour/day/week + retention) in beta, resource‑level IAM, OS Login and Org Policy controls for hardened access.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 1:37Tuning VM instances for price performance
- 14:08Scaling VM instances quickly
- 27:33Backing up VM instances
- 35:30Securing access to VMs
- 42:10Summary and key takeaways
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