Old Tom Bombadil was a merry fellow,
Bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow.
Down by the Willow-creek he heard a crying,
'Twas a poor developer, nearly dying.
"Ho! What's this?" said Tom, "Why do you weep so?"
"GCP's instance groups won't let my service go!"
"It recreates and kills, recreates again,"
"My instances are dancing in an endless pain!"
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Instance groups are worse than Old Man Willow!
They trap your VMs in their twisted game,
Recreating, deleting, driving you insane!
Tom looked at the templates, the policies so complex,
"These managed groups," said he, "are truly quite a hex!"
"Auto-healing they promise, but healing they do not,"
"They murder healthy instances, leave your service to rot!"
Sing dol! dance dol! away with managed groups!
Simple instances are better than these loop-de-loops!
No more templates! No more recreation!
Just a VM that stays in its location!
"Come now!" said Tom, "Let's make it right and proper,"
"Remove these managed groups, they're nothing but a stopper!"
He sang away the complexity, the auto-healing lies,
And left a simple instance underneath the skies.
Hey now! merry dol! The instance runs at last!
No more recreation cycles spinning fast!
Tom Bombadil has spoken, and his word is true:
Managed instance groups should not exist, through and through!
And so the developer danced with joy and glee,
Their service running stable, finally running free.
While Tom went singing northward, his work complete,
Leaving GCP's complexity in defeat.
Ring dong! hop along! fol dol de dillo!
Simple instances are sweeter than a willow!
Tom Bombadil is master of the cloud today,
And managed instance groups can go away!
Go damn I really hate GCP services. Avoid it like hell if you can. Don't fall in the trape of their free startup credits, it's not worth it.