Google Compute Engine (GCE) Resource Integration

RightScale Support for Google

Resources

The following resources in GCE are supported in RightScale:

• Disks
• Firewall Rules
• Images
• Instances
• Machine Types
• Networks
• Snapshots
• Tags
• Zones

Feature implementation in RightScale

Disks

Disks in GCE are called Volumes in RightScale.

Firewall Rules

Firewall Rules in GCE map to RightScale in a unique way, due to the fact that RightScale has a grouping of rules while GCE does not.

Read more about this mapping on the Network Manager for GCE page

Networks

Networks created in RightScale are GCE Networks.

Tags

GCE Tags on Instances are synchronized with RightScale tags as described on this page.

Tags in GCE are also used for a variety of other purposes, such as relating an instance to a firewall rule. For tags used in this way, RightScale provides other constructs that can relate Firewall Rules to Instances (see Firewall Rules above). Tags on other resources are not currently supported natively in RightScale.

Zones

Zones in GCE are represented as Datacenters in RightScale. When you register GCE in RightScale, only one cloud is created, called Google, which has multiple datacenters that each correspond to one Zone in GCE.