This is an (e2-medium), 2-CPU, 4GB RAM instance. For more information about zones, see the Compute Engine guide, Regions and Zones. Note: Remember the zone that you selected to use later. Use the following for this lab:įor more information about regions, see the Compute Engine guide, Regions and Zones. There are many parameters you can configure when creating a new instance. To create a new instance, click CREATE INSTANCE. This may take a minute to initialize for the first time. In the Cloud console, on the Navigation menu ( ), click Compute Engine > VM Instances. In this section, you create new predefined machine types with Compute Engine from the Cloud console. Create a new instance from the Cloud console But in Cloud Shell, you need to set this for every new session or reconnection. Note: When you run gcloud on your own machine, the config settings are persisted across sessions. Learn more from the Regions & Zones documentation. Your Cloud Platform project in this session is set to The output contains a line that declares the Project_ID for this session: When you are connected, you are already authenticated, and the project is set to your Project_ID. Click Activate Cloud Shell at the top of the Google Cloud console.Cloud Shell provides command-line access to your Google Cloud resources. It offers a persistent 5GB home directory and runs on the Google Cloud.
Note: To view a menu with a list of Google Cloud products and services, click the Navigation menu at the top-left.Ĭloud Shell is a virtual machine that is loaded with development tools.
You can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that is designed to be fast and to offer strong consistency of performance. Compute Engine allows you to create virtual machines (VMs) that run different operating systems, including multiple flavors of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat, CoreOS) and Windows Server, on Google infrastructure.