Google Cloud Platform for Architects

Creating VMs

This section will walk you through creating a VM instance. There are several ways to create a VM instance in GCE:

• Through the web console
• The gcloud command-line tool from Cloud Shell
• Using API calls

There actually is a fourth way as well—that's an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach relying on the Deployment Manager. Infrastructure automation is a big deal these days, and we'll get to this approach—but in a later chapter.