Cloud Launcher is a ready-to-go development stacks, solutions, and services, which also serves as marketplace for cloud-based application from third-party vendors for deployment on Google’s Cloud services.
While Cloud Launcher included commercial applications of which Google handles the billing, and combined with users' regular GCP bills, the company has resorted to re-branding the service as the GCP Marketplace to better define its true purpose.
Google has added the open source container-based applications to the service that can easily be deployed to its Kubernetes Engine or other Kubernetes services.
The technical agility will be driving huge interest in public cloud from developers and businesses of all sizes, as the marketplace had previously only featured traditional virtual machines, but now, is getting container support.
As the support for Kubernetes Engine definitely removes the hassle of managing different containers, even with the deployment to Kubernetes cluster often a manual process, Google is promising a click to deployment of an application from the marketplace to its Kubernetes engine or any other Kubernetes service.
Google is currently offering solutions from developer tools like GitLab, graph database Neo4j, the Kasten data management service, as well as open source projects like WordPress, Spark, Elasticsearch, Nginx and Cassandra in the marketplace.
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