Hands-On Machine Learning on Google Cloud Platform

Setting up Google Cloud Datalab

In order to set up Google Cloud Datalab, we click on the Cloud Shell icon:

Within the Cloud Shell, set the project that needs to be worked on, as follows:

gcloud config set core/project gcp-test-196204

Once the project is set, configure the zone as follows:

gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-b

Finally, create a Datalab instance by specifying:

• For a CPU version:

datalab create --no-create-repository mlgcp

• For a GPU version:

First, you need to request a GPU version through the quotas page, as follows:

Submit the quota request and you should receive the permission to use GPU in the given region soon. ...