GCP Cloud Digital Leader Practice Question

Your company plans to migrate an application that needs custom device drivers and must run a specific Linux distribution. Developers want to avoid rewriting code, but they accept managing the guest OS. Which Google Cloud compute service best meets these constraints?

Cloud Run
Compute Engine virtual machines
App Engine Standard environment
Cloud Functions

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Compute Engine virtual machines give customers full control over the underlying operating system, including the ability to choose any supported Linux distribution, load custom kernels, and install device drivers. This approach supports lift-and-shift migrations with minimal or no code changes, although the team is responsible for patching and maintaining the VM. Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and App Engine Standard are all serverless or managed platforms that abstract away the guest OS; they do not allow loading custom kernel modules or choosing arbitrary Linux distributions, so they cannot satisfy the stated constraints.

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