The Compute Engine is vast, but I'll just tell you the usage, you'll eventually end up on the server to host a dynamic or static site or run a web application.
It is also very important to understand containers before we proceed. For now, let's just discuss the basics.
Consider an actual shipping container, similar to the ones we used to see on ships and trains, which is shipped throughout the world and can carry whatever you want.
We use containers in IT to store our executable code, libraries, and dependencies, which are used to host our web applications. It can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Using containers makes it possible to host a sit
e with all the runtimes required.
Famous companies shifted their sites to the containers like Netflix.
GCP gives a feature to deploy containers in our VM.
But before that, you have to keep your image in your container registry.
A container registry is a service which is used in GCP to store our private images. Similarly, there is other resource which is Docker hub part of docker(which is publically used).
An image is packaged with OS, libraries and software dependencies to create a container. (we will talk furthermore briefly)
Talking about containers and docker, Kubernetes is vast, We will talk about those in future.
That's it, for now, we will continue further more in next blog.
Hope you liked it. Will see you on the next topic 😃