Serve Windows from Google Cloud
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Serve Windows from Google Cloud

Bhavik Shah Bhavik Shah

Bhavik Shah

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发布日期: 2017年2月28日
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Google Cloud Platform has come a long way from AppEngine days when it was more of PaaS platform allowing you to run app in few languages. I blogged about Running PHP Web Apps on Google Cloud when I got preview access to it back then. It has amazed me how quickly that turned into a feature rich complete IaaS Platform running on one of the best computing infrastructures in the world.

Google has offered $300 worth services on its cloud platform as free trial. Although there are several things I wanted to try out like the Container Enginer or Machine Learning APIs I chose trying out running Windows Servers. Having done the same on Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure I wanted to compare it with what Google has provided.

Few things were remarkable

  1. Clutter free dashboard
  2. gcloud cli access right from

Google Cloud Console

3. Running a Windows Server and connecting to it via RDP was breeze.

Steps to create Windows Server are simply choose "Create Instance" from toolbar.

Specify Instance Name, Zone, CPU, Memory, Choose OS and Access. In most cases default is enough. In my case I chose Windows Server 2016.

That's all.

Remote Desktop is already set with sensible defaults. Now just set Windows Password via menu and RDP to your Server via Public IP.



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