Nowadays, almost everything runs on the Internet. We have millions of apps, websites, and online services. And they all need computers to do their work. That's why billions of dollars are spent on cloud computing services. And Google Cloud Platform is just one of these cloud computing companies.
But what can you do with GCP? Let's say you're a company that builds apps. How can cloud computing help you? Well, your apps will need to use things like:
Google Cloud lets you access such resources. You can pick between computing hardware or services. Here's an example of hardware vs. service. For example, you want a Kubernetes cluster.
You have two options:
Google Cloud has hundreds of products and services like these. And this can be overwhelming for beginners. It's hard to understand what each product, or service does. It's hard to figure out how to configure each one. And that's why we created KodeKloud Playgrounds.
You can read about Google Cloud on the Internet. You can check out tutorials. But with theory alone, it's still hard to understand GCP. So we created the Google Cloud Playground to let you get some hands-on experience. You will be able to use the cloud-compute platform directly. And you'll launch and configure services yourself. This will help you understand Google Cloud much faster. And you can test things, risk-free. No risk of receiving a huge bill for the services. No risk of breaking anything as it's just a temporary environment. You can reset and recreate it if you need to start over.
One click and you can start learning about Google Cloud.
Please read about each component you want to use. If you encounter any problems, the tips below may help (see stuff marked in bold text). Here's what we currently support in our GCP playground:
These are basically virtual machines, or virtual servers.
If you already have virtual machines running, first delete those. Otherwise you might not be able to launch this cluster. It would exceed the maximum number of 5 CPU cores you can use per project.
In the first step pick Standard, not Autopilot.
Next, in the left panel, click on default-pool and then click on Nodes.
The Machine type should be e2-medium and Region should be us-west1.
The maximum Boot disk size should be 16 or less. You have 50GB total of disk space you can use. And the cluster has 3 nodes (maximum available in the playground), by default. 3*16=48GB.
You might get this error:
Network "default" has no route to the default internet gateway. To fix this, add a route with destRange '0.0.0.0/0' and nextHopGateway 'default-internet-gateway'.
To fix it, open up another tab in your web browser. Open GCP again. Use the top search bar. Type VPC, go to VPC networks. Click on Routes in the left panel. Add a route and type 0.0.0.0/0 in the Destination IP range field.