Chapter 16
Deploying Applications with Cloud Launcher and Deployment Manager

THIS CHAPTER COVERS THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES OF THE GOOGLE ASSOCIATE CLOUD ENGINEER CERTIFICATION EXAM:

• 3.6 Deploying a solution using Cloud Launcher
• 3.7 Deploying an application using Deployment Manager

 Throughout this exam guide you have learned how to deploy computing, storage, and networking resources, and now you will turn your attention to deploying applications. Cloud Launcher is Google Cloud Platform’s (GCP’s) marketplace, where you can find preconfigured applications that are ready to deploy into the Google Cloud.

Google has given Cloud Launcher a new name: Marketplace. The Associate Cloud Engineer Certification guide refers to the service as Cloud Launcher, so we will continue to refer to it as Cloud Launcher in this chapter. You will see how to use Deployment Manager to configure templates, which can launch your own custom applications into Google Cloud. Cloud Launcher and...