These are the steps for creating VM instances inside a google cloud VPC custom network remotely. It assumes that google cloud account has been created and cloud sdk has been installed and working correctly.
1) Set google cloud project:
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1) Set google cloud project:
- gcloud config set project [xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
2) Create custom VPC network
- gcloud compute networks create vpc-net --subnet-mode custom
3) Create two subnets within the VPC network
- gcloud compute networks subnets create vpc-net-subnet-us-central --network vpc-net --region us-central1 --range 10.0.1.0/24
- gcloud compute networks subnets create vpc-net-subnet-eu-west --network vpc-net --region europe-west1 --range 10.0.2.0/24
4) Listing the created subnets
- gcloud compute networks subnets list --network vpc-net
vpc-net-subnet-eu-west europe-west1 vpc-net 10.0.2.0/24
vpc-net-subnet-us-central us-central1 vpc-net 10.0.1.0/24
5) Create the VMs inside the subnets
- gcloud compute instances create vpc-net-vm-us --subnet vpc-net-subnet-us-central --zone us-central1-a
- gcloud compute instances create vpc-net-vm-eu --subnet vpc-net-subnet-eu-west --zone europe-west1-b
6) Try to ping (From local machine) or ssh (From gcloud web console) - it would fail.
7) Create the filewall rules for allowing ping & ssh to the newly created VMs.
- gcloud compute firewall-rules create vpc-net-allow-ssh --allow tcp:22,icmp --network vpc-net
Now, we should be able to ping and ssh into the VMs.
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