googlecloudplatform-test: Drupal on Google App Engine

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Today's guest post is from Felipe Rubim, Head of Technology at CI&T. A Top Google Cloud Platform Partner, CI&T builds scalable predictive applications and custom software for fortune 500 companies. As far as PHP and Drupal applications, CI&T has built and maintains more than 400 Drupal enterprise websites globally with an army of 300+ Drupal developers. In this post, Felipe introduces a white paper detailing a test CI&T conducted on Google Cloud Platform and the potential for Drupal Enterprise apps running on Google App Engine PHP. The link to the complete methodology and findings can be found here.Is Google App Engine ready for Drupal and if it is, can it be used for enterprise class applications?Methodology: Findings:

Scalability - We determined that Drupal websites running on top of App Engine scale beautifully. This is especially useful for digital marketing campaigns.

Security - We found App Engine to be in good shape for web portals handling sensitive data.

Versioning - We determined having different versions of your site without going through extra infrastructure set up to be a big game changer.

Drupal Multisite - We concluded this was easy to set up and that it works as expected.

Drush - We found that in order to make Drush work with App Engine, some tweaks are needed when connecting to CloudSQL from another set up (e.g. Google Compute Engine - GCE).

Search - We concluded that installing and configuring Apache Solr in a GCE instance is the way to go for implementing enterprise Drupal search. We created a tutorial for that.

SSO - We also tested SSO with Google Apps and provided a code snippet/tutorial

Is Google App Engine ready for Drupal and if it is, can it be used for enterprise class applications?

Google Drive and Drupal Workflow - leveraging Drupal custom workflows and auditing/logging capabilities vastly improves Google Drive and Drupal Content/Files Workflow/authoring with automatic publishing of approved documents,

App Engine Task Queue - to replace scheduled cron tasks with App Engine Task Queue, and then execute background work (export data from a Drupal user table, campaign/contest registration, etc.) and leverage App Engine interface for management, debugging and logging;

Flexible and extensible stack with an integrated Google Compute Engine approach - The usage of Compute Engine as a complementary component of the solution allows better flexibility to add more features and integration, as well as increased automation for the site management. More details on these features and benefits described below;

Auto-scaleWorry-free infrastructureIntegration with Google AppsApplication ManagemenPotential cost savingsEnterprise to Enterprisehttp://www.ciandt.com/us-en/card/is-google-app-engine-PHP-ready-for-drupal