MCA CC - I (Practical - 2 ) Creating a VM (Linux) Environment – Deploying & managing VMs on GCP 1. Open website - https://www.skills.google 2. Click on Sign - Select Sign in with Google 3. From left panel - Select "Catalog" 4. Type "cloud storage bucket" - in "What you want to learn today" search box 5. Select "cloud storage bucket" from search 6. Select "Google Cloud Storage - Bucket Lock" 7. Select "Start Lab" 8. Select "Launch with 1 Credit" 9. Right click on “Open Google Cloud Console” button and select “Open link in new Tab” 10. You can find Username, Password, and Project ID 11. Copy "username" and "password" from "skills.google" website 12. Use them to "Sign in" 13. Select "I Understand" button 14. Select check box "Terms of Service" - "Click on Agree and continue" 15. Click on "Select a Project" - One Dialog box will open 16. Select project ID such as "qwicklabs - gcp - ....." if not selected. 17. Select “Compute Engine” from left panel. 18. Select “Create Instance” from top. 19. In Machine Configuration. a) Name: linux - vm - 1 b) Region: choose any (e.g., us - central1) or do not change. c) Zone: do not change. 20. From options: select General Purpose a) Series: E2 b) Machine type: e2 - medium (Good default, low cost) 21. From left panel select “OS and Storage” 22. Click on “Change” button 23. Select bellow options: a) Operating system: Ubuntu b) Version: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS c) Boot disk type: Balanced persistent disk d) Size: 10 GB 24. From left panel select “Networking” 25. Select check box of: (If you want to run web server) Allow HTTP traffic Allow HTTPS traffic 26. Click on “Create” to create VM 27. Click on SSH to run Linux server in browser 28. Using SSH browser you can a) Update the OS b) Install / remove packages c) Manage users and permissions 29. Select the check box against the VM name 30. Now, you can Start, Stop, Suspend (OS is not Shut down), reset (restart). 31. From More actions: Select “Delete” 32. Click on “Delete” button.