Google cloud hands-on guide: Cloud Launcher

qwiklabs GCP notes

Cloud Launcher provides a way to launch common software packages and stacks on Google Compute Engine with just a few clicks.

Cloud Launcher

launch Cloud Launcher from cloud console GUI, type nginx

• instance name for nginx
• pick a zone that is close to you
• machine: f1-micro
• boot disk: 10GB SSD
• click "Allow HTTP Traffic" and "Allow HTTOS Traffic"

click Deploy button

Visit the site button

verify via SSH

ps aux | grep nginx

google150667_student@nginxstack-1-vm:~$ ps aux |grep nginx
root 723 0.0 0.0 159508 1656 ? Ss 05:09 0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx -g daemon on; master_process on;
www-data 724 0.0 0.2 159860 4640 ? S 05:09 0:00 nginx: worker process
google1+ 1934 0.0 0.0 12784 952 pts/0 S+ 05:12 0:00 grep nginx