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The purpose of the GCP Deployment Request is to allow our client`s Data Science team access Boxalino datasets, for the goal of running jupyter/notebook processes in the designed anaconda environments.

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  1. BigQuery Data Editor : <client>_lab, <client>_views

  2. BigQuery Data Viewer : <client>_core, <client>_stage, <client>_reports, <client>_intelligence

Required Information

When contacting Boxalino with a GCP project deployment request, please provide the following information:

1

project name

as will appear in your project`s list
naming requirements: space, - and _ are allowed.

2

email

the requestor is the one managing the applications running on the project;

this email will receive messages (alert and notifications) for when the project is ready to be used;

** the email alerts for the VM / application run - is part of the instance.txt file, specific for every application launch

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client name

(also known as the Boxalino account name) this is to ensure the access to the views, core & reports datasets (https://boxalino.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/BPKB/pages/303792129/GCP+Project+Deployment#BigQuery-Datasets-Access )

4

labels

optional; the labels are used as project meta-information. see Labels

5

permissions

optional; by default, the requestor will have full access and can further share with others. see Permissions

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Tip

Once the application has been launched, a script will initialize the environment and load all your content from the GCS bucket.

Checking out the application state

1. SSH on the application VM

Go to your project Compute Engine page: https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances

You can further log/ SSH on the virtual machine and check out the output or inspect the contents.

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2. Monitoring tools from GCP

Go to your project Compute Engine page (https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instances) and click on the running application instance. Switch to the Monitoring tab.

In the MONITORING view of your Application, you are able to track the resources available & consumed:

  1. CPU utilization

  2. Memory Utilization

  3. Disk Space Utilization

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3. GCP Logs Explorer

Google Cloud Platform provides a series of tools for monitoring the project resources.

One of these tools is the Logging Client.

Go to your Logs Explorer https://console.cloud.google.com/logs/query? and review the application logs.

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Application Delete

If you want to stop the application, you can freely delete it from your Compute Engine view, or use the form provided by Boxalino https://gcp-deploy-du3do2ydza-ew.a.run.app/instance

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