I am working with an organization that wishes to run Drupal on Google Cloud. I have not worked with Google Compute Servers before and am looking for some background material and/or case studies of people (or organizations) that have done this in the (recent) past.
I did find several articles for Drupal 7. Most start out by using one of the provided Drupal images (e.g., https://www.drupal.org/node/2402921). This site will involve custom modules for Drupal 8.
My basic questions are:
1: Do I need composer on the Google server?
2: Are these servers better treated as an operational system and development is completely done elsewhere?
2a: If so, is there an article(s) about how to manage a development environment on one server and production on Google Cloud (or anyone else's) server?
3: Anything else I should read on these topics that I don't know enough to ask yet? I have lots of experience in Drupal and Drupal (especially D8) custom module development.
Thanks
Leonard
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Pantheon is on GCP
I believe Pantheon's entire infrastructure is hosted on Google Cloud Platform, is a hosted service provider not an option for you?
http://pantheon.io
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Jordan,
Thanks for the response. I am not completely sure of the answer to your question. The initial thought of people in the organization was to custom develop most everything. I convinced them that at least for the prototype, a Drupal site will meet most of their needs. I am thinking that for the prototype, almost any hosting will work. The initial production design is too far away to predict and may depend on non-technical factors.
I need to check with management to see if it is important for Google Cloud hosting, any cloud hosting, or just working for the prototype implementation.