Best Practices for Installing Tableau Server on the Google Cloud Platform
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Deployments on public clouds continue to be supported but the content for third-party public cloud deployments is no longer updated.
For the latest Tableau Server deployment content, see the Enterprise Deployment Guide(Link opens in a new window) and the Deploy(Link opens in a new window) section of Tableau Server help.
For those customers who have access, we recommend Tableau Cloud. For more details, see:
- Tableau Cloud Manual Migration Guide
- Tableau Cloud Trial for Admin(Link opens in a new window)
- Tableau Cloud: Get Started for Admin(Link opens in a new window)
Introduction
The following best practices make installing Tableau Server in the cloud a better experience.
Read the Tableau Server Plan Your Deployment section.
Read the Tableau Server on Google Cloud Platform Prerequisites(Link opens in a new window).
Read the Tableau Server Security Hardening Checklist(Link opens in a new window).
If you’re new to the cloud, use the Google Cloud Platform free tier(Link opens in a new window) to get familiar with working in the cloud before you deploy Tableau Server on the Google Cloud Platform.
Read Google Cloud Platform best practices for enterprise organizations(Link opens in a new window).
Read about and understand network topology(Link opens in a new window) on the Google Cloud Platform and how to architect it.
Keeping Costs Down
The Google Cloud Platform offers cloud-based services on a pay-as-you-go basis. Costs are determined by the services you run and amount of time you use them. Different combinations of instance types and sizes have different costs. For more information about services pricing, see Google Cloud Platform pricing(Link opens in a new window). You can estimate your total monthly costs using the Google Cloud Platform pricing calculator(Link opens in a new window). You can also compare on-premises vs the cloud using the Google Cloud Platform TCO calculator(Link opens in a new window).
To help monitor and control usage costs on an ongoing basis, you can set up billing alerts for the Google Cloud Platform to alert you when your monthly Google Cloud Platform costs reach your predefined spending threshold. For more information, see Set budgets and alerts(Link opens in a new window) at the Google website.