Part 1: Creating an Instance on Google Cloud

Overview

This section walks through provisioning a VM instance, configuring networking, and SSH access.

flowchart LR
  A[Select Project & Zone] --> B[Choose Machine Type]
  B --> C[Configure Boot Disk]
  C --> D[Set OS & Networking]
  D --> E[Review & Create]
  E --> F[SSH into VM]

Steps

1. Name Instance & Select Zone

   • Choose a region and zone that optimize latency for your users.

2. Select Machine Type
   

   gcloud compute instances create my-instance \
     --zone=us-central1-a \
     --machine-type=n1-standard-2
   

3. Boot Disk Configuration

   • OS: CentOS 7.5 (64-bit)
   • Disk size: 30 GB SSD

4. Networking & DNS

   • Reserve a static external IP.
   • Add A‐record pointing to the VM IP in Cloud DNS.

5. SSH Access
   

   gcloud compute ssh my-instance --zone=us-central1-a