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rroh
rroh

Reputation: 159

Website with Google cloud compute

Total NOOB question. I want to setup a website on google cloud compute platform with:

  1. static IP/IP range(external API requirement)
  2. simple front-end
  3. average to low traffic with a maximum of few thousand requests a day.
  4. separate database instance.

I went through the documentation of services offered Google and Amazon. Not fully sure what is the best way to go about it. Understand that there is no right answer.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 97

Answers (2)

Vikram Tiwari
Vikram Tiwari

Reputation: 3895

A viable solution is:

  • Spawn up an n1-standard instance on GCP (I prefer to use Debian)
  • Get a static IP, which is free if you don't let it dangling.
  • Depending upon your DB type choose Cloud SQL for structured data or Cloud Datastore for unstructured data
  • Nginx is a viable option for web-server. Get started here

Rest is upon you. What kind of stack are you using to build your app? How are you gonna deploy your code to instance? You might later wanna use Docker and k8s to get flexibility between cloud providers and scaling needs.

Upvotes: 2

Serge Hendrickx
Serge Hendrickx

Reputation: 1416

The easiest way of creating the website you want would be Google App Engine with the Datastore as DB. However it doesn't support static IP's, this is due to a design choice. Is this absolutely mandatory?

App Engine does not currently provide a way to map static IP addresses to an application. In order to optimize the network path between an end user and an App Engine application, end users on different ISPs or geographic locations might use different IP addresses to access the same App Engine application. DNS might return different IP addresses to access App Engine over time or from different network locations.

Upvotes: 1

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