Deploying our first GCE instance

Let's begin this chapter with the basics of provisioning a new VM. We can do this from the GCP console. In this section, we will look at the very basics needed to deploy a VM. We will look at the deployment options in more detail in the next section of this chapter:

  1. Browse to the navigation menu and go to Compute Engine | VM instances, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Click Create, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Give your VM a name in this example, we called it cloudarchitect. We can select ...

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