Setting Up Nodes Using Google Compute Engine¶

You can get a Flocker cluster running using Google Compute Engine. You’ll need to setup at least two nodes.

1. Create a new cloud server:

   • Visit the Google Cloud Console.
   • Navigate to the project you want to use.
   • Use the menu in the upper left to navigate to Compute Engine.
   • Click Create Instance.
   • Choose a name and a zone for your instance. Zone must be the same for all instances.
   • Choose a machine type.
   • For the Boot Disk, choose a supported Linux distribution (either RHEL 7, CentOS 7, Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 14.04) as your image.
   • Under Identity and API Access select Set access for each API and grant Read Write access to Compute.
   • Click Create to create the new instance.

2. Gain SSH Access:

   You can SSH into the machine either using the in-browser SSH client by clicking SSH on the instances page, or by using the gcloud command line tool.

   gcloud compute --project <project-name> ssh --zone <zone-name> <instance-name>