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gcp-compute

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Manage Compute Engine instances and instance templates. Configure managed instance groups and preemptible VMs. Use when deploying compute resources on GCP.

When to use

• Deploying web servers, application backends, or batch-processing workloads on GCP
• Running workloads that need full OS-level control (unlike Cloud Run or App Engine)
• Creating managed instance groups for auto-healing and auto-scaling behind a load balancer
• Provisioning GPU-attached VMs for ML training or rendering pipelines
• Cost-optimizing non-critical workloads with preemptible or spot VMs

When not to use

• Cloud Run
• App Engine

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