Let us sign up to GCP and start using it for setting up the clusters. We will be demonstrating using GCP quite extensively.
- Home Page: https://cloud.google.com
- $300 credit for an year. This credit is enough to learn set up process for most of the clusters.
- We will be able to stop the servers and start when ever we need. It will help us leverage credit for our learning purposes.
- Setup process will take only few minutes for us to start provisioning servers (virtual machines).
- Make sure to upgrade the account to use the $300 credit
- Go to quotas and increase CPUs to 48 in the region of your choice for Compute Engine APIs – CPUs. In our case it is us-east1
- Choose the metric in desired region
- Enter phone number and click on Next
- Enter quota to be 48 and click on Save.
- It might take 2 days to increase the quota.
- Pricing – let us go through the details related to pricing.
- There are variable costs and fixed costs associated with GCP
- VM Instances are charged as you use them
- Once provisioned there is fixed cost with respect to storage as well as static ips.
- You can use GCP pricing calculator to have idea about costs
- Once $300 is saturated, you or your company have to pay for it.