Autoscaling an Instance Group with Custom Cloud Monitoring Metrics

This lab describes how to deploy an autoscaling Compute Engine instance group that is automatically scaled using a custom Cloud monitoring metric

• GSP087
• Overview
• Setup and requirements
• Task 1. Creating the application
• Task 2. Create a bucket
• Task 3. Creating an instance template
• Task 4. Creating the instance group
• Task 5. Verifying that the instance group has been created
• Task 6. Verifying that the Node.js script is running
• Task 7. Configure autoscaling for the instance group
• Task 8. Watching the instance group perform autoscaling
• Task 9. Autoscaling example
• Congratulations!