Deploying Compute Engine with a Custom Network

You can deploy a VM with custom network configurations using the console and the command line.

Navigate to the Compute Engine section of the console and open the Create Instance form, like that shown in Figure 14.6.

FIGURE 14.6 Preliminary form to create an instance in Cloud Console

Click Management, Security, Disks, Networking, Sole Tenancy to expand the optional forms and then click the Networking tab to display a form similar to Figure 14.7.

Note that in this form, you can set network tags. Click Add Network Interface to display a form like that shown in Figure 14.8. In this form you can choose a custom network. In this example, we are choosing ace-exam-vpc1, which we created earlier in the chapter. We also select a subnet in that form.

FIGURE 14.7 Networking configuration form

FIGURE 14.8 Form to add a custom network interface

From this form, you can also specify a static IP address or choose a custom ephemeral...