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For example, you can choose 20 GB, SSD, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as shown below:

In such a case, you can choose the following configuration:

You will see the cost on the right side changes!įor your first experiments with Google Cloud, you can be conservative with the $300 credit for some actual work. You can keep default machine type or click Customize to select the number of CPU cores, memory, and GPUs you would like your virtual machine to have. If you are curious about what they mean, you can read Google Cloud’s documentation about them here. Any region/zone will do for this tutorial. Go to the top left corner of your Google Cloud home page, click on the triple bar icon ≡ and select Compute Engine ->VM insta nce and cli ck Create.Įnter whatever name you want in the Name field as shown below: Now you are set to create a virtual machine. You can create a new project called project1, for example, as in the following gif:ģ. Create a new project or use an existing one. You will get $300 credit to play around with for a year! It is more than enough to learn and play with everything Google Cloud offers.Ģ. If you don’t have one already, create a Google Cloud account from here.We can connect to it with SSH from your computer. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to create a virtual machine in Google Cloud. You can also create them in the cloud and simply connect to them. You can install virtual machines on your computer. Virtual machines are needed in many situations to test applications against other operating systems, to access virus-infected data, or to experiment with other operating systems. The virtual machine is sandboxed from the rest of the system, meaning that the software inside a virtual machine can’t escape or tamper with the computer itself. It runs in a window, much like any other program, giving the end user the same experience on a virtual machine as they would have on the host operating system itself. In other words, creating a computer within a computer. If you are not familiar with what a virtual machine is, here is a definition from Microsoft: A virtual machine is a computer file, typically called an image, that behaves like an actual computer. One of these services is creating highly customizable virtual machines. Google Cloud offers many tools and services. By Nezar Assawiel How to create and connect to Google Cloud Virtual Machine with SSH Image source: