Design application infrastructure on Google Cloud using Gemini Cloud Assist

Key Takeaways

Using Gemini and application design center, I'm going to instantly create an application infrastructure design. Here I am asking Gemini to help me create an home listing application in Google Cloud. Gemini has proposed multiple products I should consider using as well as a logical architecture diagram. Opening this diagram, it looks pretty good. But I know I want to use a microser architecture with Postgress. So I'm asking Gemini to modify. Through this multi-tone interaction, I can dynamically iterate on the application infrastructure design until satisfied. Then I open it in application design center. It's a low code visual canvas. Here I have multiple options. I can make changes manually or I can continue using the AI assistance. Also I can preview the entire code as Terraform. So I can deploy this using my third party deployer. Now as a platform engineer I'm going to codify certain enterprise specific practices into these application components. For example, we use Postgress 15 enterprise plus and require regional replication. Then I share this with my application developers who use the template to configure application instances. Here's an application instance that has been sent over to a developer. The app developer will then use the configuration experience to set container paths, environment variables and any other application specific parameters. After which they can use the deployer built into the application design center. Once the application is deployed, they can view it online and also see that it is autoregistered in appub. Now you can automatically filter logs, metrics, and alerts by applications and also view out- of-box dashboard with golden signals for your app in cloud observability. This makes troubleshooting a lot more easier with Gemini Cloud Assist.