Creating a VM instance in GCP - Try It Yourself

Creating a VM instance

📖 Scenario: You are setting up a simple virtual machine (VM) instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to host a small website. This VM will run a basic Linux operating system.

🎯 Goal: Create a VM instance on GCP with a specific name, machine type, and image. Configure it to allow HTTP traffic.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a VM instance named my-vm-instance

Use the machine type e2-micro

Use the image family debian-11 from the debian-cloud project

Allow HTTP traffic to the VM

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Creating VM instances is a common task when deploying applications or websites on cloud platforms like GCP.

💼 Career

Cloud engineers and developers often need to configure and launch VM instances with specific settings to meet application requirements.

1

Define the VM instance name

Create a variable called instance_name and set it to the string "my-vm-instance".

GCP

# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a simple string assignment to create the variable.

2

Set the machine type

Create a variable called machine_type and set it to the string "e2-micro".

GCP

instance_name = "my-vm-instance"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Assign the machine type as a string to the variable.

3

Specify the image family and project

Create two variables: image_family set to "debian-11" and image_project set to "debian-cloud".

GCP

instance_name = "my-vm-instance"
machine_type = "e2-micro"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Define both variables with the exact string values.

4

Create the VM instance configuration dictionary

Create a dictionary called vm_config with keys and values: "name" set to instance_name, "machineType" set to machine_type, "imageFamily" set to image_family, "imageProject" set to image_project, and "allowHttp" set to True.

GCP

instance_name = "my-vm-instance"
machine_type = "e2-micro"
image_family = "debian-11"
image_project = "debian-cloud"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Use a dictionary with the exact keys and link the values to the variables you created.