☁️GCP-VPS-Setup 💻🛜

This repo is step by step guide how to create and setup google cloud console and create Virtual Machine for testnet nodes, Scroll at the bottom for video link 🔗

🔧 Step-by-Step Instructions 🛠️

1️⃣. Create Google Cloud Account ☁️

• Visit: https://console.cloud.google.com/
• Log in with your Google Account.
• Create payment profile and complete payment.
• Once you're payments done, Activate your account.

Tip: you can cancel autopay anytime after activating your gcloud account, gcloud will only dedcut Rs. 2 for verification

2️⃣. Enable API 🛜🔗

• Click on hamburger menu
• Click on "Cloud Engine"
• Click on "VM instances"
• Click on Enable Clound Engine API

3️⃣. Create VM/VPS 💻

• Click on "Cloud Engine >> Overview >> Create Instances"

• Machine Configuration

  1. Name {Type any name you want to keep but keep it short}
  2. Region {Select any region as per your requirements}
  3. General Purpose {Select "N2: Balanced & Performance"}
  4. Machine Type {Select "8vcpu & 32gb RAM"}

• OS and Storage

  1. Click on "Change"
  2. Type Ubnuntu & Select Ubuntu 24.10 Minimal x64
  3. Disk Type: leave it as balanced
  4. Storage: 180GB

• Data Protection (No Changes)

• Networking

  • Check and allow all top three options

• Observability (No changes)

• Security

  1. now you have to create SSH key to access you VPS remotely

  2. Download Terminus APP from Windows appstore Terminus Windows Appstore

  3. signup/sigin and create an account on Terminus

  4. Head over to Keychain

     

  5. Click on Generate New Key

     

  6. Fill out all details

     

  7. Save your Private key & Copy your Public Key

     

  8. Edit your Public key with your-vps-username at the end

  Example: ssh-rsa cHcCfUi/KY9OH68Cw105mH4gKtUuAvllX8ZBurhEypXxz5POnwxURjH+PQNJajDob3ka9zM00+A7y/494uplR3vSVjor8s8BGAbYZrR Generated By Termius <- {Replace "Generated By Termius" with "your-vps-username"}

  9. Come Back to Gcloud Security and scroll down on VM accessm, you'll see "add manually generated SSH Keys", click on "Add items" & fill your recently edited public key in previous step & hit "Create"

Here's 👇 Video link that will help you setup GCP & you can follow screenshots given below for Terminus

Video Link

It will take 5mins to create and activate your VM. Once your VM is live you can access it directly or through Termius

This is for educational purpose only & Mining Crypto currency in free gcloud account is restricted which means they will ban your projects if found doing so.