Introduction: Google Compute Engine lets you create virtual machines running different operating systems, including multiple flavors of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, Red Hat, CoreOS) and Windows Server, on Google infrastructure. You can run thousands of virtual CPUs on a system that has been designed to be fast and to offer strong consistency of performance. Here, you’ll learn how to create virtual machine instances of various machine types using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Console and using the gcloud command line. You’ll also learn how to connect an NGINX web server to your virtual machine. You should type the commands to reinforce their … Continue reading Cloud Engineering: Creating a Virtual Machine