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google-cloud-platform
Víctor
Víctor

Reputation: 123

GCP Terminology - VMs, Instances, Workers, Nodes

I'm a little bit confused about the equivalency of some terms in GCP. Can we consider VM = instance and these equivalent to Workers and Nodes?

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1097

Answers (1)

gogo
gogo

Reputation: 1011

You can interpret the terms like this:

  • Instance: a (virtual) machine with fixed CPU, memory and disk resources
  • Worker: a non-permanent, dynamically provisioned ad-hoc instance
  • Node: instance that belongs to an instance group / Kubernetes cluster
  • VM: any virtual machine - i.e. applies to all above

Upvotes: 2

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