Most of the developers are preferred to run their applications in one of the Linux machine. Because, Windows is suitable for developing an application. But if we go for running an application, Linux will be the good option. In this blog, we are going to see to setup a new Virtual Machine in Google Cloud Platform.
PREREQUISITES
- Google Cloud Platform Account – Billing Enabled
- Required Permission to setup a new Virtual Machine
create a new project
Login into the Google Cloud Console and create a new project. The Project name I have given “My-Blog-Project” and the project ID is “my-blog-project-247614”.
compute engine
After create a new Project, select the project which we created on the top of the project selection drop down. Then, on the left side menu select Compute Engine –> VM Instances.
vm instances
After select the VM Instances sub menu, you will be navigated to the instances list screen. If you don’t have an instances before, then you can see the “Create” Instance button on the screen.
create/setup an instance
After clicked the “Create” button, to create and setup a new instance in Google Cloud Platform, follow the below steps one by one.
instance name
Provide a name of the instance and it will be used later to identify our virtual machine instances. The name should unique across the GCP.
region and zone
The region is a Geographical location where you are going to run your resources and the zone is an isolated location within your region.
machine type
Select the Machine type in Machine Configuration section. Lots of Machine Types are available based on our needs. I have selected the standard machine type which contains 1 vCPU and 3.75 GB Memory.
firewall
Add the firewall rules to allow specific network traffic from the internet. Select the check boxes “Allow HTTP Traffic” and “Allow HTTPS Traffic“.
boot disk
Every instance required a boot disk to load and run the operating system. The Google Cloud Platform supports many boots disks and we can choose based on our needs. I selected “New 10 GB standard persistent disk Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)”
Then click “Create” button at the bottom of the page and Google Cloud Platform console starts to create a new Virtual Machine. It takes few minutes to create. After successful creation, you can see the new instance on the instances list page.
Click SSH drop down on the Connect column to connect and access the VM. I have connected the VM in browser window itself.
A virtual machine console will open in new browser window and you can execute the LINUX commands on the window to access a new virtual machine.
