virtual_machine.md

Virtual Machine (VM)

👌 Note: Skip to the next section if you already have a VM set up

Note: The following section requires you already have a Google Cloud Platform account associated with an active Billing account.

• Go to console.cloud.google.com > > Compute Engine > VM instances > Create instance

• Name it lewagon-data-eng-vm-<github_username>, replace <github_username> with your own, e.g. krokrob

• Region europe-west1, choose the closest one among the available regions

  

• In the section Machine configuration under the sub-heading Machine type

• Select General purpose > PRESET > e2-standard-4

  

• Boot disk > Change

  • Operating system > Ubuntu

  • Version > Ubuntu 22.04 LTS x86/64

  • Boot disk type > Balanced persistent disk

  • Size > upgrade to 150GB

    

• Open Networking, Disks, ... under Advanced options

• Open Networking

  

• Go to Network interfaces and click on default default (...) with a downward arrow on the right.

  

• This opened a box Edit network interface

• Go to the dropdown External IPv4 address, click on it, click on RESERVE STATIC EXTERNAL IP ADDRESS

  

• Give it a name, like "lewagon-data-eng-vm-ip-<github_username>" (replace <github_username> with your own) and description "Le Wagon - Data Engineering VM IP". This will take a few seconds.

  

• You will now have a public IP associated with your account, and later to your VM instance. Click on Done at the bottom of the section Edit network interface you were in.

  

Public SSH key

• Open the Security section

  

• Open the Manage access subsection

  

• Go to Add manually generated SSH keys and click Add item

  

• In your terminal display your public SSH key:

  • Windows:

    # If you use Windows Terminal
    more $HOME\.ssh\de-bootcamp.pub
    # OR if you use Command Prompt:
    # more %HOMEPATH%\.ssh\de-bootcamp.pub

  • Mac/Linux users can use:

    cat ~/.ssh/de-bootcamp.pub

• Copy your public SSH key and paste it:

  

• On the right hand side you should see

  

• You should be good to go and click CREATE at the bottom

  

• It will take a few minutes for your virtual machine (VM) to be created. Your instance will show up like below when ready, with a green circled tick, named lewagon-data-eng-vm-krokrob (krokrob being replaced by your GitHub username).

  

• Click on your instance

  

• Go down to the section SSH keys, and write down your username (you need it for the next section)

  

Congrats, your virtual machine is up and running, it is time to connect it with VS Code!