Assigning a VM for Our Website

In the last lesson, we set up the basic environment for deploying our web application. Now, we'll learn how to allocate a virtual server to the project.

We'll cover the following...

Picking up where we left off in the last lesson, we can observe that there are no resources allocated to our project:

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VM Instance

To assign a server to our website, we need to create a VM instance. Go the navigation bar at the top left corner and scroll down to the COMPUTE section. Here, move on to Compute Engine and select VM instances:

After initialization, refreshing the page will direct us to this window:

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The Create button will ...