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SPEAKER: Hey, folks.
I hope you're here because you want to learn something.
You might also be here because you
saw one of my videos on social media
recently around joining Google not that long ago, not
knowing a whole lot about Google Cloud,
and documenting my learning journey.
Well, here's the first step in that process.
We're going to do something today that's
very foundational, kind of a step one, if you will,
if you're getting into the world of cloud.
We're going to spin up a virtual machine, or a VM,
today, in about five minutes.
And I want to give you two different ways
to do that, two different learning paths or learning
styles.
So if you want to track with us on this journey,
tune in for the next four minutes and come along with us.
So you may be here, and you've never actually spun up
a virtual machine at all.
If that applies to you, you're in great company.
This is a super, super, simple way
to show you how to get started on the ground floor.
So, way number one, if you want to learn about things in cloud,
starting with the basics of how to spin up a virtual machine.
So the first way is a more traditional learning method,
where, if you like a class where you
like to go through things from start to finish,
Qwiklabs has a great course around Google Cloud essentials.
I want to click into this so you can kind of see what
a sample curriculum looks like.
So this is about a five-hour curriculum--
so think about half a Saturday, roughly,
without stressing too hard--
that's broken up into a series of lessons and labs
so you can take things one step at a time.
So the first part, which actually
may seem very introductory, is something
that I do recommend if you're new to cloud,
because it walks you through the console
and what resources look like, what roles and permissions look
like.
But it explains the console, which
is really just like a remote control for the resources
that you're going to manage in the cloud.
And so this teaches you about the console,
but then the next lesson, the lab
around creating a virtual machine,
is closer to what we're talking about today.
And so this is about true to form.
It takes right around 40 minutes or so, so somewhere
between a half hour and an hour.
It's going to walk you through the process
to create a virtual machine, with a few different wrinkles
around what that looks like.
That's way number one.
Way number two is to actually do some things right from inside
of the console.
Now I really like this method, because this
is what I call inline learning.
And this is where you can actually go to the Help icon
in the console, click Start a Tutorial,
and then you'll see, right on the right-hand panel,
you have the ability to go into these lessons.
And what I like about this is that the material
that you want to learn more about
is right here, so that you can practice on the left-hand side
and see the instructions on the right-hand side.
So in this case, because I know that a virtual machine is
in the Compute Engine, I click that tutorial section
to try the Compute Engine.
And then the simplest way to start
is by creating a Linux virtual machine.
Now we may do a Windows virtual machine in a later session.
That's a little bit more complicated,
because connecting to that requires
another piece of software tooling
that we're not going to get into today.
But in this case, when you go through the tutorial,
it literally tells you, step-by-step,
exactly what you need to do.
And so as you follow these steps,
starting with where in your project
or where in your workspace are you going
to deploy these resources.
I've got a Cloud Therapy Practice project.
And so as I click Next, this walks me
through exactly what I need to do.
Now I started off here.
If I follow this along, it's telling me where I need to go.
I go to the Compute Engine.
I go to Compute Instances.
I go to Create an Instance.
And then there are two things that I need to be able to do.
One, I need to select my operating system,
which will be the software that runs on that virtual machine.
Am I running Windows?
Am I running a Ubuntu?
Am I running Debian?
And so this is the type of software that I'm running.
So I change the boot disk, and this
allows me to pick Ubuntu, which is what's
recommended in the tutorial.
And I can select that.
Then the other thing I need to do
is to allow HTTP traffic so that I can connect
to this particular instance.
And so, I do that.
I click Create.
And then now my process is beginning
to create a virtual machine.
I'm going to stop here for the sake of time,
because this was just about giving you
a little bit of a snack or an appetizer
for what this looks like.
But there are many other lessons we're going to go through
and tutorials and demos that I'm going to mix up
to show you what it looks like.
Before you head out though, again, just a quick reminder.
Virtual machine, very simple, foundational
to cloud computing.
This is how a lot of things run, where there's a software
construct where you can actually run your programs
and run your applications on a piece of a physical computer.
You're running on a software version
of that computer in the cloud.
The console is a remote control, and I
can follow these tutorials to walk me
through how to apply these things from a laptop
or from a computer, wherever I may be.
Now this instance has already started up.
If I wanted to connect to it, you'll
see that it even walks me through what
that looks like on the next screen, in terms of connecting
to that by way of SSH.
And so again, super simple.
I even like that when you get to the end of the tutorial,
it even tells you how to clean up the resources
and gives you options to go deeper.
Last thing I'll mention on our way out from this short video
is that one of the premier events that
happens in the entire cloud computing industry
is actually taking place next week.
If you like to learn more about stuff in the cloud,
and specifically, Google's flavor of how
we want to add more value to your life,
check out Next next week, October 12 through 14.
Registration is free.
You can design different learning paths
based on concepts that you're interested in.
And if this is the type of thing that you want to dive into,
sign up next week.
If this type of video that we talked about today
is the type of thing you want to keep tracking with,
leave some comments, tell me what you want to learn about,
and be looking for another video every one or two weeks as we
walk you through a bite-size, appetizer-like chunk of how
you can learn in the cloud.
Take care.
Happy learning.
You can do this.
This is not too intimidating.
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