Follow the instructions here to install gcloud. Then, set the Google Cloud project that you want to use for this lab as the default, by running:
gcloud config set project <your-project-id>
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-f
gcloud config set compute/region us-central1
Note: if you don't yet have a Google Cloud project created, then follow the signup instructions here.
Grab the service account docs from here:
Run the following commands to make sure your GCE account is setup:
Create a VM named workshop-test
gcloud compute instances create workshop-test \
--image-project coreos-cloud \
--image coreos-stable-835-12-0-v20160202 \
--boot-disk-size 200GB \
--machine-type n1-standard-1 \
--can-ip-forward \
--scopes compute-rw
List all VMs:
gcloud compute instances list
Delete the workshop-test VM:
gcloud compute instances delete workshop-test