Learning Cloud : Create a Compute Engine virtual machine using the gcloud command-line interface.
In GCP console, on the top right toolbar, click the Open Cloud Shell button.
To display a list of all the zones in the region to which Qwiklabs assigned you, enter this partial command gcloud compute zones list | grep followed by the region that Qwiklabs or your instructor assigned you to.
Your completed command will look like this:
gcloud compute zones list | grep us-central1
Choose a zone from that list other than the zone to which Qwiklabs assigned you. For example, if Qwiklabs assigned you to region us-central1 and zone us-central1-a you might choose zone us-central1-b.
To set your default zone to the one you just chose, enter this partial command gcloud config set compute/zone followed by the zone you chose.
Your completed command will look like this:
gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-b
To create a VM instance called my-vm-2 in that zone, execute this command:
gcloud compute instances create "my-vm-2" \
--machine-type "n1-standard-1" \
--image-project "debian-cloud" \
--image-family "debian-10" \
--subnet "default"
Note: The VM can take about two minutes to launch and be fully available for use.
To close the Cloud Shell, execute the following command:
exit