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A global e-commerce company is migrating its legacy monolithic application to a microservices architecture on Google Cloud to improve agility and scalability. They require a managed service that can orchestrate containers, automate deployments, scale resources dynamically based on demand, and provide robust management features for their distributed services. Which Google Cloud solution meets these requirements?
- AApp Engine
- BCompute Engine
- CCloud Functions
- DGoogle Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
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Correct answer: D. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a managed service for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes. It is the ideal choice for migrating monolithic applications to a microservices architecture, offering orchestration, automated deployments, dynamic scaling, and robust management.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. App Engine is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for web applications and mobile backends, offering automatic scaling but less control and flexibility for complex microservices architectures compared to GKE.
- B. Compute Engine provides virtual machines, which require manual management of containers and orchestration, not suitable for a managed, automated microservices environment.
- C. Cloud Functions are serverless compute services for event-driven functions, suitable for small, individual tasks, not for orchestrating and managing an entire microservices application.
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
A managed service for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications using Kubernetes.
- Container orchestration
- Automated deployments and scaling
- Ideal for microservices architectures
Memory trick: GKE is the 'King' of container orchestration, managing the 'ships' (containers).