Let's now create our first VM instance using the web console.
Go to the GCE console, https://console.cloud.google.com/. Select the project we created in the previous chapter (or create one if you don't have one yet), and in the menu on the left, click on Compute Engine. Since you don't have a VM yet, you are greeted by the following message. Click on Create as shown in the following screenshot:
For this first VM, we will choose a small one and resize it as we go along.
There are several things you need to decide on at this point:
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The name of your instance. I will call mine sparrow. This name does not have to be unique across ...
