Process of Creating a Virtual Machine in GCP

The Process

1. Created a Google Cloud Account with a free Subscription.

2. Navigated to compute engine service.

3. Enabled compute engine API

4. Navigated to the VM Instance Section to create a Virtual Machine.

5. Click on Create Instance.

   

   1. Enter the name of the Instance, region and availability zone in which the server is to be located.

   2. Select your choice of machine configuration, in my case I have selected general purpose E2 Series machine with 1 Gb of RAM and a single core CPU.

      

The selected boot disk with a size of 10GB usable space with Debian Image.

1. 

   In my case, I have rest every other to its default.

2. Click on Create instance. Wait for 2 minutes to complete.

3. Click on SSH to connect to the instance through a secure shell.

4. 

   Authorize SSH- in the browser to connect to the VMs.

5. 

   Click on upload file at the top right corner of the window.

6. 

   Choose a file you want to upload

My Overall Experience

As a 4^th year computer science engineering student with almost 6 months of hands-on experience in AWS Cloud services during my internship, the following task was easy. Looking forward to joining GDSC GITAM.