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Last Updated on May 28, 2019

Google Cloud Platform, offered by Google, is a suite of cloud computing services that run on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. learn more

Setup an Instance on Google Cloud

Follow the Instructions below to deploy an instance on Google Cloud Platform;

Step 1. Create New Project In Google Cloud Platform

Once you’ve signed up for Trial or purchased Google Cloud, you’ll need to log into your Google account and access the Google Cloud Console. From the Project drop-down, click Create project:

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Step 2. Navigate to Compute Engine

Google Compute Engine offers high-performance virtual machines, customer-friendly pricing, fast networking, and carbon-neutral impact.

Go to VM Instances

Step 3. Create an Instance

Click, Create Instance

Enter Deployment Name – Deployment name can only contain lowercase characters, numbers or dashes. It must start with a lowercase letter and cannot end with a dash.
Select Zone –
Configure Machine Type –
Boot Disk Type – Change to Debian 8 (Jessie)
Firewall – By default, all incoming traffic from outside a network is blocked. Select the type of network traffic you want to allow. Learn more Check both Allow HTTP & HTTPS Traffic.
Finally, Click on Create and Wait for Google to generate an IP Address and provide SSH Access.

Follow the instructions below to ensure that successfully create an instance.

Step 4. Change Boot Disk to Debian 8 (Jessie)

Debian is a Unix-like computer operating system that is composed entirely of free software and packaged by a group of individuals participating in the Debian Project. read more

Step 4. Finally, Create

Scroll down to Click on Create and Wait for Google to generate an IP Address and provide you SSH link to access Terminal.

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Step 5. Launch Terminal

Click on SSH to Launch Terminal so that we get our hands dirty on CLI

You’ve successfully Setup Instance on Google Cloud and Debian.

Click here to learn how you can install Apache Web Server, MySQL 5 Database, PHP 5 and other important packages or extensions. LAMP stack is a group of open source software used to get web servers up and running. The acronym stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. We have already set up a virtual private server that is running Debian, the Linux part is taken care of.

Last Updated on May 28, 2019

It’s always been a concern for newbies to have some problems connecting to the Instance via SSH from Terminal or Command prompt and also sending emails from a virtual machine instance.

I had a hard time myself, trying to connect to virtual machine via SSH from my Terminal and getting mail server to work efficiently. I spent a couple of moons trying to troubleshoot the problem and finding the solutions.

Unsurprisingly, there are thousands of articles and solutions explaining the how-to of working with your instances running on Google cloud. It appears that I committed a mistake of not going through the documentation beforehand.

You should know that by the default design some services are blocked and ports are not listening in virtual machines as they are susceptible to a large amount of abuse.

First off you’ll need to sign up for Google Cloud and claim your $300 Credit for 12 months by clicking here.
There are a few steps you’ll have to take in order to be squared away but the entire process should take around 10 minutes.

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Here’s a video by sentdex showing with a play by play of the entire process. Happy learning!

How to Setup an Instance on Google Cloud ?