How to create a Virtual Machine Instance(VM)

How to create a Virtual Machine Instance(VM)

After loading your Google Cloud Platform, on the navigation menu, select Compute Engine

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Select VM Instances, a page that shows all the VM instances you've created will load up or none if this is your first time

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Click create instance

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Enter a name for your new VM without spaces eg. new-vm. You choose to add a label to your Virtual Machine(VM) but its optional

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We are leaving the region, zone and machine configuration in default

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But we can decide to change the series, let's change it to N2 which will also change the machine type to n2-standard...

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We are not checking the confidential VM service and container. We are leaving the Boot disk and Identity and API Access in default for this demo.

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We are allowing http and https traffic because that's the only way we can SSH(access and manage) into the instance. Then after all that, come down and click create.

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You can also create your VM using the cloud shell which is google Cloud's Command Line Interface by clicking on command line

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When you click on command line, you will be presented with a command that you can copy and paste in the CLI and create the same VM.

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But you can still create it on the console by clicking create.

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The page loads and Hooray!!!!!!!!!! The VM is created

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