Google Compute Engine vs. Tanzu Application Catalog

It is excellent if you have any workloads that need raw computing or plan to have any state-full services running in your environment like DBs (for which you don't want to use Managed services), cache, etc. It also gives you complete control over which versions of software, OS, etc., you need, and thus, you can build anything and deploy it on GCE.

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VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) is well-suited for the following scenarios: - Organizations with many users and a limited IT staff: This product allows them to quickly and easily make a variety of applications available to their users, without having to manually install and configure each one. - Organizations with a need to deploy a wide range of open-source applications in a virtual environment: The product allows for easy discovery, download, and deployment of a wide range of popular open-source applications to a virtual machine. - Organizations that operate in a hybrid or multi-cloud environment: The product allows for deployment of applications to virtual machines running on-premises or in the cloud, depending on the organization's needs and infrastructure. On the other hand, VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami) may be less appropriate for the following scenarios: - Organizations that primarily use proprietary or closed-source applications: As the product is limited to open-source applications, it may not be suitable for organizations that primarily use proprietary or closed-source applications. - Organizations that require a high degree of customizability for their applications: The product offers limited customizability options for the applications once deployed, which may not be suitable for organizations that require a high degree of customizability. - Organizations that have strict regulatory compliance requirements: The open-source nature of the product may make it less appropriate for organizations that have strict regulatory compliance requirements, as it may not have the same level of support and security as proprietary software.

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• A simple web-based interface that is a breeze to train new engineers to use. Our experienced engineers never have trouble finding or doing anything on GCE.
• Sustained use and Committed use discounts mean we get top-tier VMs for an incredibly competitive price.
• Wonderful identity and access management that gives us peace-of-mind when granting access to machines to contractors and other 3rd parties.
• Fast VMs, lastest in hardware, and enough RAM to power even the hungriest of our services.

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• pre-packaged templates they provide.
• ease of cloud-deployment of your projects.
• The development community page always has useful information and there is a lot of support.

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• The L7 load balancer can be difficult to get set up. It's limited in its functionality, especially with the container engine.
• It's hard to find certain objects on the web console. Often times the things I need to get to are buried in advanced menus.
• Google's decision to only support MySQL on their relational DB service means that I have to manage Postgres instances in Compute on my own, managing everything from storage to backups.

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• Possibility to configure the implementation through mobile devices
• Sometimes the performance of the VMs is slower than expected
• A best way to do the upgrades, you have reinstall and reconfigure in this process

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Its pretty good, easy and good performance. Also, interface is very good for starters compared to competitors. Infra as Code (IaC) using Terraform even added easiness for creation, management and deletion of compute Virtual Machines (VM). Overall, very good and very easy cloud based compute platform which simplified infrastructure, very much recommend.

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Having interacted with several cloud services, GCE stands out to me as more usable than most. The naming and locating of features is a little more intuitive than most I've interacted with, and hinting is also quite helpful. Getting staff up to speed has proven to be overall less painful than others.

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Most of it is intuitive. I think some of the awkwardness is found by new users who are unfamiliar with other software applications.

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Google Compute Engine works well for cloud project with lesser geographical audience. It sometimes gives error while everything is set up perfectly. We also keep on check any updates available because that's one reason of site getting down. Google Compute Engine is ultimately a top solution to build an app and publish it online within a few minutes

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The raw computer power is excellent; our applications feel snappy, pages load almos instantly for our customers and so on. The primary reason it is not a perfect 10 is that the native tools for monitoring individual VM performance can be complex, making it challenging to easily diagnose specific resource bottlenecks without significant configuration

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• The documentation needs to be better for intermediate users - There are first steps that one can easily follow, but after that, the documentation is often spotty or not in a form where one can follow the steps and accomplish the task. Also, the documentation and the product often go out of sync, where the commands from the documentation do not work with the current version of the product.
• Google support was great and their presence on site was very helpful in dealing with various issues.

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They have an expert team, not just a frontline team that has learned the FAQs but a team that knows the product.

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When configuring Amazon ECS, it is a bit confusing as you are not able to find the actual issue. You need to enable Additional AppInsights to get detailed level info, which is not a concern when configuring on the Instance Level. Moreover, Azure VM does not provide an in-browser option; instead, it is Azure Bastion, but for that, you have to enable a dedicated subnet, which is a bit unnecessary.

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At first, another of the options that we considered was AMPPS, another application for AMP installations, however we quickly discarded it when we met with VMware Application Catalog (Bitnami), mainly due to the number of apps it handled, more than anything because it had all the ones we used and also the option free made it very tempting, more time in the market and more community support

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It works really well with other Google Cloud services, making it easy to build scalable solutions across different teams and locations.

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• Scalability means flexibility and less upfront costs
• Can become expensive when hard set compute requirements are clear, but things like Spot VMs can help here too, or just having your own infrastructure and scaling up with Google. This is for more advanced cases though
• Ramp up time is long, but after that it is quick to do many things and ROI is awesome

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• It's helped to create a community of loyal users, which would be difficult with other applications
• The implementation was fast
• It's easy to update

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