GCP: Deploy and Manage Linux Virtual Machine Instances

Learn about deploying and managing Linux VM instances on Google Cloud.

Introduction

• Understanding Google Compute Engine
• What you should know

1. Create and Configure a Virtual Machine Instance

• Machine families, series, and types overview
• Networking overview
• High availability overview
• Configuring networking
• Configuring a machine family, series, and type
• Configuring an operating system
• Configuring storage
• Configuring a service account

2. Manage Virtual Machine Instances

• Adding network interfaces
• Connections overview
• Connecting to a Linux virtual machine instance with SSH
• Connecting to a Linux virtual machine instance with OS Login
• Bootstrapping with a startup script
• Configuring observability
• Analyzing monitoring metrics

3. Automate Deployment of Virtual Machine Instances

• Instance templates and instance groups overview
• Configuring an instance template
• Configuring an instance group
• Creating a machine image
• Deploying from a machine image

4. Back Up Virtual Machine Instances

• Snapshots overview
• Working with persistent disk snapshots

Conclusion

• Where to learn more about Google Compute Engine