Creating and Configuring Virtual Machines with the Console
Let’s create a VM in Compute Engine. We have three options for doing this: we can use Google Cloud Console, Google Cloud SDK, or Google Cloud Shell. Let’s start with the console.
Google Cloud Console is a web-based graphical user interface for creating, configuring, and managing resources in Google Cloud. In this chapter, we will use it to create a VM.
To open the console, navigate in your browser to https://console.cloud.google.com and log in. Figure 5.1 shows an example of the main form in the console.
FIGURE 5.1 The main starting form of Google Cloud Console
In the upper-left section of the form, click the Select A Project option to display the existing projects. You can also create a new project from this form, which is shown in Figure 5.2.
FIGURE 5.2 The Project form lets you choose the project to work with when creating VMs. You can also create a new project here.
After you select an existing project...
