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Google Cloud Platform - Linux Tutorial

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- [Instructor] One great place for experimenting with Linux in the cloud is on Google's Cloud Platform. When you visit cloud.google.com you can sign up for a free trial account which lets you use some cloud resources free of charge up to a certain limit. One nice thing about these cloud platforms is that for small workloads, like you'd use when you're learning about Linux, even if you go beyond your free credit, the cost is usually only cents per day. I've gone through the sign up process and when you complete that process, you'll need to make sure that you have a project created. To set up a small virtual machine, we'll use Compute Engine. You'll want to find that on the left bar in the console and enable billing for it to start using it. Remember, this is billing against a credit that Google gives you, not really money at this point. Once that's set up, under VM Instances, I'll choose Create. I can set a name for my instance and I can choose which region and zone my virtual…

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