Distributed Cloud connected supports the deployment of a number of Google Cloud services. These service workloads run in Kubernetes containers on your Distributed Cloud connected clusters.
Supported Google Cloud services
Distributed Cloud connected supports the deployment of the following Google Cloud services:
| Service type | Included in GDC connected costs | Billed separately |
|---|---|---|
| Compute | Software-only Google Distributed Cloud VM Runtime on Google Distributed Cloud |
Guest operating systems (you must obtain your own licenses) |
| Storage | Raw (persistent volume) storage Container Storage Interface (CSI) Hybrid storage |
Software Defined Storage (SDS), such as Symcloud Storage (you must obtain your own licenses) |
| Networking | Edge Network API VLAN support GKE Custom Network Interface (CNI) plugins GKE bundled L4 load balancer |
Not applicable |
| AI/ML | Deploying AutoML models in containers | Not applicable |
| Database | None | AlloyDB Omni (preview) Third-party database solutions, such as MongoDB (you must obtain your own licenses) |
| Observability | Cloud Logging Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging API GDCc logs and metrics |
Prometheus for disconnected observability Application-level custom logs and metrics |
| Configuration Management | Config Sync Fleet packages (preview) |
Not applicable |
| Management | Google Kubernetes Engine dashboard in the Google Cloud console |