Blurring the IaaS/PaaS Divide Google Cloud Platform Developer Roadshow - 2014 

PaaS IaaS Your code Today: Cloud as a binary choice Your code Flexibility Agility 

Next Gen Cloud Auto-Managed Open / Flexible Productive Flexibility Management and 

• Flexibility of Compute Engine • Access to native resources, machine types • Auto-management of App Engine • High Availability • Image updates, security patches • Access to all Managed Services • Collocation with other services • Developer productivity Managed VMs Virtualized hardware Abstracted computing power IaaS Infrastructure-as-a-Service PaaS Platform-as-a-Service Managed VMs 

Resource View create/ destroy VM VM Replica Pools Replica Pool actuator VM Template image metadata bash cmds Load Balancer 1 template ⇒ many machines 

Flexibility Agility Google Compute Engine Compute as a spectrum Your Code Manage your infrastructure 

Manage your infrastructure Flexibility Agility Google Compute Engine Your Code Compute as a spectrum Your Code Replica Pools Provisioning and health checking 

Manage your infrastructure Flexibility Agility Google Compute Engine Your Code Compute as a spectrum Replica Pools Provisioning and health checking Managed VMs OS management, deployments, logging and monitoring Your Code Your Code 

Manage your infrastructure Flexibility Agility Google Compute Engine Your Code Compute as a spectrum Replica Pools Provisioning and health checking Managed VMs OS management, deployments, logging and monitoring Your Code Your Code App Engine Managed Runtimes Manage your serving stack Your Code 

Managed VMs Demo 

Managed VMs Demo Sudoku Example 5 1 7 3 9 3 9 8 8 2 3 6 5 7 3 4 8 7 7 5 1 3 9 7 2 8 8 5 1 8 4 9 4 6 7 9 3 8 4 1 

OpenCV 

Peter Norvig’s Sudoku Solver 

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Backend Managed VMs Frontend App Engine Sudoku architecture VM VM VM VM VM Task Queue 

application: compute-demo version: 1 runtime: python27 api_version: 1 threadsafe: yes handlers: - url: /favicon\.ico static_files: favicon.ico upload: favicon\.ico - url: .* script: main.APP libraries: - name: webapp2 version: "2.5.2" - name: jinja2 version: latest app.yaml application: compute-demo version: 1 module: solver runtime: python27 vm: true api_version: 1 threadsafe: yes handlers: - url: .* script: main_solver.APP libraries: - name: webapp2 version: "2.5.2" vm_settings: machine_type: n1-standard-1 apt_get_install: python-opencv backend.yaml 

application: compute-demo version: 1 runtime: python27 api_version: 1 threadsafe: yes handlers: - url: /favicon\.ico static_files: favicon.ico upload: favicon\.ico - url: .* script: main.APP libraries: - name: webapp2 version: "2.5.2" - name: jinja2 version: latest app.yaml application: compute-demo version: 1 module: solver runtime: python27 vm: true api_version: 1 threadsafe: yes handlers: - url: .* script: main_solver.APP libraries: - name: webapp2 version: "2.5.2" vm_settings: machine_type: n1-standard-1 apt_get_install: python-opencv backend.yaml 

$ gcloud preview app deploy . command line Deployment https://developers.google.com/cloud/sdk/gcloud-app 

Live Demo! 

Backend workers App Engine VM VM VM VM VM Task Queue Sudoku architecture 

from google.appengine.api import modules modules.set_num_instances(42) Python Application specific scaling https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/modules/ https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/modules/ 

$ git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/appengine-opencv-sudoku-python command line Clone from Github 

IaaS or PaaS is a false dichotomy Removing the split with great new technology This is only the beginning! 1 2 3 Summary https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/ http://goo.gl/ykbnsd 

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