Google Cloud introduces cloud app design center

Google Cloud has introduced Application Design Center, a service that helps platform administrators and developers design, deploy, and manage applications on the Google Cloud Platform. Application Design Center is in public preview.

Application Design Center provides a visual, canvas-style approach to designing and modifying application templates, Google Cloud said. Platform administrators and platform engineers can build spaces tailored to the needs of each development team. Developers can configure application templates for deployment, view infrastructure as code in-line, and collaborate with others on designs. Deployments are automatically registered in App Hub for operations and troubleshooting.

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Developers can design and deploy applications using the design canvas or natural language chat, powered by Gemini Cloud Assist. As developers drag application components to the canvas to create an application diagram, the tool offers suggestions for additional components and possible connections. At the same time, developers can chat with Gemini to get design suggestions. Gemini will even propose an initial design for a business problem.

App Design Center can be used to design and deploy serving infrastructure, containerized applications, and generative AI applications. After deployment, developers can connect to a code repository to pull in client code or containers, Google Cloud said.