Creating instances
Creating a virtual machine on compute engine is relatively straightforward. At a minimum, developers specify an instance name, zone, machine type, and boot disk. Several other configuration options are available, and we'll cover these in later sections. As with other products and services on Google Cloud, Compute Engine resources can be created and managed from the Cloud Console, the gcloud command-line tool, or the Google Cloud APIs.
To create a new image using the Cloud Console, navigate to Navigation menu | Compute Engine | VM instances. If this is your first instance, click on the Create button. For this exercise, set the machine type to f1-micro. The Google Cloud free tier includes a single f1-micro VM, run continuously ...
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