Step 2: Once signed up and logged in you can see the Google Cloud dashboard.

Step3: Goto Compute section on the left side menu and click on Compute Engine

Step4:  Here you can create a fresh Compute instance by creating a new VM instance

We recommend you to use a region and zone that is nearest to your target users/visitors

Step 5: Once you are in the process of creating the VM instance according to your requirements,

Step 6: You will be given a choice to select the OS from the below and importantly please check Allow HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Choose OS ubuntu 16.04 /18.04 /20.04 LTS let us choose this to procure the VM instance, Screenshot shows 18.04 LTS being chosen

Step 7:  Once done please go ahead and create the VM instance

Now we have to assign a static IP address for the created instance
Goto Networking >> VPC networks

Step 9: Make sure to assign a static IP for the compute instance-This is done by changing Ephemeral to Static. Reserve the static IP for the instance.

Step 10: Once you fix the static IP, the firewall needs to be configured, create a firewall rule, and make sure to open ports 22, 80, and 443.

Step 11: Once the firewall is done,  we are finalizing the procurement of Compute instance.

You can log in to the Compute instance once the instance is created.

Note: You will be logging in as a non-root user by default, switch to the root user, please give the command

For changing the root password of the compute instance, do the following changes using commands

passwd root

New password : <enter your password>

Retype new password: < re-enter the password>

You would require this password in one of the coming steps:

Now, you would require to configure the SSH so as to have a direct installation. The steps are given below

Goto SSH configuration file

# nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Now, uncomment and change the line from no to yes

PermitRootLogin yes

PasswordAuthentication yes

Once done the changes, don’t forget to restart the process

#service sshd restart