WS GCP Part1: Getting started with Google Cloud Web GUI - Gapminder/waffle-server GitHub Wiki

WARNING! This article may change without notice since both GCP and Waffle Server are in active development

This instruction explains how to get started with Google Cloud Web GUI. If you are already using google cloud, feel free to skip it and jump to the next parts:



1. Log in and agree with the terms of service

  • Go to https://cloud.google.com

  • Press top right on a user's image - add new account

  • Sign up with your existing account (it’s quicker) or create a new one. For real deployments we advise creating a dedicated company account, in this tutorial we will use [email protected]

  • Press [CONSOLE] in top right

  • Agree with terms of service as shown (this is important, without this the project won’t get created)



2. Start the free trial

  • Press SIGN UP FOR FREE TRIAL in top right. Agree to the terms of service as shown

  • Enter your personal details and credit card (You have 300 $ in free google cloud credits, which is plenty to perform this tutorial and beyond. But you should keep track of when credits go down and you may start paying). Result:



3. Check that you have a billable empty project

  • A new project should have been auto-created for you

  • Go to billing — see “My First Project” should be connected to billing account



Next part: WS GCP Part2: Prepare a deploy virtual machine (VM)

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