GCP Getting Started Guide

This section describes how to launch and connect to Money Saver VM in a Google Compute environment to save upto 80% on VM cost.

Select a zone where you want to launch the VM(such as us-east1-)
Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory.For this vm, f1.micro instance size is enough.You can go with micro instance type here. (This defaults to 1 vCPUs and 0.6 GB ram.)
Optionally change the boot disk type and size. (This defaults to "Standard Persistent Disk" and 10 GB respectively)
Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.Keep port 22 open to allow SSH connection to this VM
Click Deploy when you are done. Money Saver VM will begin deploying.

A summary page displays when the compute engine is successfully deployed. Click on the Instance link to go to the instance page .

Click on the VM, it will open a details page.For this VM to work we need Access Scope of Compute Engine as Read/Write enabled

To Enable it, Stop the VM and click on Edit. Go to the Cloud API access scopes section and change the compute engine access scope to Read/Write. Save your changes