Steps To Manage Your Virtual Machines

Step 1: Start, Stop or Resize the VM instance

• Navigate to Compute Engine -> VM Instances. Here, you can see the list of VM instances. You can stop, restart, resize or delete a VM instance.

Step 2: Create a custom image or snapshot.

• You can create a custom image or snapshot of your VM instance.
• An image contains all the data of the VM machine while a snapshot captures the data at a specific point in time.
• This can be used for backup and restore purposes.
• To create an image/snapshot, navigate to Compute Engine -> images/snapshots as shown below.

Step 3: Creating health checks

Navigate to Compute Engine -> Health Checks same as above. Health checks are used to check whether applications in VMs respond to requests. You can create health checks for the applications in your VM instance.

Congratulations, you have successfully launched and managed a VM instance using GCE. In this way, you can easily launch and manage VM instances using the Compute Engine option. Do explore and experiment with various options provided by GCE.

Google Compute Engine (GCE) is one of the cloud services offered by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). GCE provides Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) which allows users to create and manage Virtual Machines on Google’s infrastructure. Users can launch their custom OS images using a VM. GCE follows a pay-per-use model which allows users to pay only for the usage.