Join Telegram GCP Study Group You can use ‘gcloud‘ command-line tool to create and manage Google Compute Engine resources. Set your Project as default in which you want to create Compute Engine instance gcloud config set project your-project-id Create Compute Engine instance named test-instance-1 in zone us-central1-a gcloud compute instances create test-instance-1 –zone …
Join Telegram GCP Study Group There are multiple ways how you can get discounts while using Compute Engine instances. To get the discounts, it’s important to understand the pricing structure for Google Compute Engine. The billing for Compute Engine instances is done for each resources used in the instance. For example, each vCPU and each GB …
Boot Disks These are block storage volumes attached to the Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). This is the root volume where your images is loaded once you boot the VM instance. There is only one root volume where your operating system is loaded. Though you can add additional disks but those …
Join Telegram GCP Study Group What is Google Compute Engine? Google Compute Engine (GCE) is a Virtual Machine which is created on the Google Cloud Infrastructure. Google Compute Engine is an example of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Google Compute Engine helps you to create scalable computing capacity on Google Cloud Infrastructure. It means you can spin …
What is Machine Type? Machine Type is a template of virtualized hardware resources needed to instantiate the Google Compute Engine instances on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The template contains resources like memory, virtual CPU, persistent disk storage. Compute Engine – Machine Type Generally, one physical CPU is equal to 2 virtual CPU (vCPU). If a …
Images While creating a Compute Engine instance on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), you can choose Image. An Image contains boot loader, operating system, file system structure and any software & configurations which you want to be available after boot load. A persistent boot disk is created for the instance when you use an image. The …
