VM

A virtual machine (VM) is an emulation of a computer system. Virtual machines are based on computer architectures and provide the functionality of a physical computer. Their implementations may involve specialized hardware, software, or a combination. A VM is a kind of hypervisor. The distinction between Type-1 and Type-2 hypervisor can sometimes be not clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtXNIy_noWg

GCE

Google Compute Engine is computing and hosting service that lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure.

Create and start VMs

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-start-instance

HPC-ready VMs

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-hpc-vm

Instance templates

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-vm-from-instance-template

Sole-tenant VMs

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/nodes/sole-tenant-nodes

Nested virtualization

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/nested-virtualization/overview

Virtual displays

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/enable-instance-virtual-display

VM Disks

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks

Boot disks

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/detach-reattach-boot-disk

VM Migration

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/import

Securly connecting to VMs

https://cloud.google.com/solutions/connecting-securely

Google Compute Engine and KVM

Google Compute Engine uses KVM as the hypervisor. The KVM may be categorized as both Type-1 and Type-2.

Suspending VMs

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/suspend-resume-instance

Machine images

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-images

Back up disks

Snapshot

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/snapshots

Restoring from backup

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/machine-images/create-instance-from-machine-image

Cloud-native vs VM

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/vms-and-their-relevance-cloud-native-future-conversation

Virtual Random Number Generator

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/enabling-virtio-rng

Autoscaling groups of instances

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/autoscaler

NTP

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/configure-ntp

VM Instance lifecycle

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/instance-life-cycle

Managed VM instances

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/working-with-managed-instances

Google Cloud metadata server

Google Cloud runs a local metadata server alongside each instance at 169.254.169.254.

https://cloud.google.com/vpc/docs/firewalls#gcp-metadata-server

Connecting to instances that do not have external IP addresses

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/connecting-advanced#sshbetweeninstances

IAP Desktop

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/iap-desktop/

https://tantingli.medium.com/how-to-manage-gcp-access-using-iap-and-os-login-afd9eee17962

Tau VMs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-introduces-tau-vms

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-first-compute-engine-vm-on-an-arm-chip

Spot VMs

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/spot-vms

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-spot-vm-use-cases-and-best-practices

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/cost-management/rethinking-your-vm-strategy-spot-vms/

Run Fault-tolerant workload on Spot VMs

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/google-cloud-spot-vm

Confidential Computing

https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing

Confidential VM

https://cloud.google.com/compute/confidential-vm/docs/about-cvm

AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization

https://developer.amd.com/sev/

Shielded GKE nodes

https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/shielded-gke-nodes

VM Manager

https://medium.com/google-cloud/google-cloud-vm-manager-378f6c6bf6d7

Virtual Machine related topics

Intel VT-x and AMD SVM

https://www.anandtech.com/show/2480/9

TPU VMs

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm

Firecracker microVM

https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/

Containers

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/containers-vs-vms

UniK and unikernels

https://github.com/solo-io/unik

VM threat detection

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/virtual-machine-threat-detection-in-security-command-center

Deep learning VM with GPUs

https://cloud.google.com/deep-learning-vm/docs/create-vm-instance-gcloud

TPU VM and node architecture

https://cloud.google.com/tpu/docs/system-architecture-tpu-vm

Examples

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials

Running Apache server on GCE VM

https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/basic-webserver-apache

Running Discord bot on GCE VM

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/build-and-run-discord-bot-top-google-cloud

Migration Amazon Linux instances using Migrate for Compute Engine

https://taneli-leppa.medium.com/migrating-amazon-linux-instances-using-migrate-for-compute-engine-b2392c97cda6