Create a Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine on GCP

Overview

In this section, you will learn how to provision a Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using the c4a-standard-4 (4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory) machine type in the Google Cloud Console.

Provision a Google Axion C4A Arm VM in Google Cloud Console

To create a virtual machine based on the C4A instance type:

• Navigate to the Google Cloud Console .

• Go to Compute Engine > VM Instances and select Create Instance.

• Under Machine configuration:

  • Populate fields such as Instance name, Region, and Zone.
  • Set Series to C4A.
  • Select c4a-standard-4 for machine type.

  Creating a Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine in Google Cloud Console

• Under OS and Storage, select Change, then choose an Arm64-based OS image. For this Learning Path, use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

• If using use SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Select “Pay As You Go” for the license type.

• Once appropriately selected and configured, please Click Select.

• Under Networking, enable Allow HTTP traffic.

• Click Create to launch the instance.

• Once created, you should see a “SSH” option to the right in your list of VM instances. Click on this to launch a SSH shell into your VM instance:

Invoke a SSH session into your running VM instance

• A window from your browser should come up and you should now see a shell into your VM instance:

Terminal shell in your VM instance

Next, let’s install CircleCI!