Deepak: there are multiple ways to achieve what you're describing on the Google Cloud.
If you need for the instances to serve web traffic, you can create a "custom runtime" for the Google AppEngine Flexible environment: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/flexible/custom-runtimes/ However, this is mainly aimed at web traffic (ie. request-response which finishes in a short amount of time). Since you're looking for something long running (as in a video stream), you probably be better served by an auto-scaling managed instance group (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/) which has a load balancer in front (https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-groups/#instance_groups_and_load_balancing). Setting this up is as simple as 1) creating one machine 2) setting it up as desired (SSHing into it, setting up packages, etc) 3) creating an instance template from this one machine: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instance-templates/ As you identified, instance groups can have automated scaling or manual scaling and are better suited for long running tasks like video conferencing. All the best, Attila -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/42ee2ab2-7ac3-4ae1-be04-ae0c0b8af8aa%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
