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In this blog, I will show how to deploy a Web Server (NGINX) using Terraform on Google Compute Engine(GCE).
There are many ways to deploy Nginx server on GCP (like on GKE, App Engine, GCE etc.) but for this post I will use GCE to illustrate its usage.
Like many other marketing buzzwords, the concept of "serverless" has taken on a life of its own, which can make it difficult to understand what serverless actually means. What it really means is that the cloud provider fully manages server infrastructure all the way up to the application layer. For example, GCE isn't serverless because, while Google manages the physical server infrastructure, we still have to deal with patching operating systems, managing load balancers, configuring firewall rules, and so on. Serverless means we merely worry about our application code and business logic and nothing else. This concept extends beyond pure compute though, including things like databases, message queues, stream processing, machine learning, and other types of systems.
There are several benefits to the serverless model. First, it allows us to focus on building products, not managing infrastructure. These operations-related tasks, while important, are not generally things that differentiate a business. It's just work that has to be done to support the rest of the business. With cloud —and serverless in particular — many of these tasks are becoming commoditized, freeing us up to focus on things that matter to the business.
Running Docker in production has quickly become the norm. Cloud hosting providers like AWS, GCE and Azure realized that this is what organizations need. Services like EKS and ECS from Amazon offer a completely managed environment for your Docker containers to run on. Through this article, we’ll take a closer look to one of them, Amazon ECS, which is Amazon Elastic Container Service. We are going to describe what AWS ECS is, its functions, and its importance in the current market.
“AWS ECS is a fully-managed, scalable and production-ready platform for running containers.”
If you don’t know what any of this means, then the rest of the article is going to help you with that. Suffice it to, say, "fully-managed" implies you don’t have to pay any third-party software vendor to run your containerized application. "Scalable" means you don’t have to worry, ahead of time, about resource utilization. AWS Cloud will make resources, like CPU, memory and storage, available to you, on demand.