Google Cloud Always free vm template

This repository contains a terraform template to automatically deploy a vm in google cloud that aligns with the always free specifications

dependencies

• terraform >= v0.12.x
• google cloud cli (gcloud) >= 242.0.0
• google cloud account
• make

instructions

1. Log into google cloud account using gcloud cli

Authenticated account needs to have access to generating projects and link the project to a billing account.

gcloud auth application-default login

2. Create a terraform.tfvars file and add the billing account id

format like this:

billing_account_id = "xxx"

3. Deploy the VM using the make file

make up

4. Connect to the instance using the connect command defined in the make file

make connect