Overview
Compute lets you create, run, orchestrate, and repatriate Virtual Machines (VMs) onto your own reliable infrastructure or into your public-cloud accounts. It consolidates every VM in a single console: create, deploy, and repatriate, all in one.
Core resources
Section titled “Core resources”- Virtual machines: the VMs you create, run, and repatriate, across your own infrastructure and your public-cloud accounts.
- Disks: block volumes attached to a VM, each with a size and optional performance limits.
- Images: the bootable images a VM starts from, sourced from a container image, a remote URL, or local storage.
- Presets: predefined VM shapes (CPU and memory profiles) that simplify creating a VM, similar to instance types or flavors in the public cloud.
- Operations: the asynchronous record that tracks every create, update, delete, and lifecycle action; you poll it until it reaches done or error.
Get started
Section titled “Get started” Launch a virtual machine Create, start, and reach your first VM.
Virtual machine lifecycle How a VM moves between running, stopped, and suspended.
Use cases
Section titled “Use cases”Reference architectures
Section titled “Reference architectures”Training and tutorials
Section titled “Training and tutorials”Related
Section titled “Related” Network Attach VMs to VPCs and subnets.
Storage Back disks and images with object storage.
Topology Place VMs onto regions, zones, and hosts.
IAM Authenticate and authorize every call.
API standards The resource-oriented API every service shares.
Security baseline Authentication, secrets, and least privilege.