Transcode Videos on Google Compute Engine

Create a Security Group

Before you launch a server in the Google Compute Engine cloud, make sure you create a Security Group to allow communication among servers in your deployment and define who can initiate communication with those servers.

1. Go to Clouds > Google > Security Group.
2. Create a new Security Group. Set up the following ports:

For your generic example security group, open the following protocols and ports:

• TCP: 80
  • Keep the default IPs value as 0.0.0.0/0. This value allows access to the specified port from any IP address, whereas '0.0.0.0/32' denies access to all IP addresses (which is equivalent to not opening the port at all).
  • Enter 80 in both port fields since you are only opening up a single port and not a range of ports.
  • This allows for HTTP access to servers in the security group.

• TCP: 22 
  • Keep the default IPs value as 0.0.0.0/0.
  • Enter 22 in both port fields.
  • This enables SSH access to servers in the security group.

• TCP: 5672 
  •  Keep the default IPs value as 0.0.0.0/0.
  • Enter 5672 in both port fields.
  • This allows the Producer and Consumer to communicate with the RabbitMQ server.

Create a Deployment

After setting up your security group, you must first create a new deployment which acts as a logical grouping of related servers. In this example, you will add three servers to the deployment: GCE Demo - RabbitMQ server, GCE Demo - Video Transcode Consumer server, and the GCE Demo - Video Transcoder Producer server. Keep in mind that this is for testing purposes, deployments are commonly used for organizational purposes where you group a set of servers together that belong to the same project, such as a production or staging environment.

1. Log into the RightScale Dashboard and go to Manage > Deployments.
2. Create a new deployment. Provide a meaningful nickname and description.

Import ServerTemplates

The next step is to import the ServerTemplates to launch your servers.

1. Go to Design > MultiCloud Marketplace > ServerTemplates.
2. Import the most recent revision of the following ServerTemplates:
   • GCE Demo - RabbitMQ
   • GCE Demo - Video Transcode Producer
   • GCE Demo - Video Transcode Consumer

Add Servers

From your deployment, add the first server using the GCE Demo - RabbitMQ ServerTemplate.

1. First, from your deployment, click Add Server.
2. Choose Google as your cloud and click Continue.

3. Enter GCE Demo - RabbitMQ as the ServerTemplate Name, select the ServerTemplate, and click Server Details. Make sure the latest ServerTemplate Revision is selected.
4. Fill in the Server Name, Security Group (enter the Security Group you previously created), and Datacenter / Zone and click Confirm. 

5. Perform the same steps for GCE Demo - Video Transcode Producer and GCE Demo - Video Transcode Consumer.

Configure Inputs

Go to your deployment level Inputs tab and click edit and enter the following information:

Launch Servers

1. Go to the Deployment's Server tab (Manage > Deployment > Deployment Name)
2. Launch the RabbitMQ server. To launch the server, click the Launch action icon. When the Input Confirmation screen opens, verify the information is correct. 
3. Once operational, launch the Producer server. When it is fully operational, you can look at the rabbitmq-encode_input gauge monitoring graph which should have a lot of jobs queued.
4. Launch the Consumer server and, once operational, you should be able to watch the rabbitmq-encode_input and rabbitmq-encode_output graphs on the RabbitMQ Server change as jobs are processed.