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Jun 16, 2024
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Create a VM on GCP within Computer Engine

You've downloaded and installed the project. Let's hit the ground running.
  1. Enable the Computer Engine API img01

  2. In the Google Cloud Console, open Computer Engine, then click “Create an Instance” button, then you will open a page to config an instance. img02 img03

  3. Keep these default configuring, go to Boot disk section, click “Change” button to begin configuring your boot disk. img04

  4. On the Public images tab, choose Ubuntu from the Operating system list. img05

  5. Choose Ubuntu 20.04 LTS from the Version list, then click “Select” button. img05

  6. In the Firewall section, select Allow HTTP traffic and Allow HTTPS traffic. img05

  7. To create the VM, click Create, then you will see your new VM in the VM instances page. img05 img05

  8. Next steps, I will install apache2 and config an index page, then to show the index.html page in browser.