What Is A Virtual Machine?

A Virtual Machine is a computer operating system that can be operated from the cloud. With the help of a Virtual Machine, a user can deploy various applications on the cloud, host a website, create and manage APIs as well as Microservices and many more cloud services.

In this article, I will walk you through a step-by-step guide on how to use a computing engine to Launch and Manage Virtual Machines.

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.