Google Cloud Platform Cookbook

Getting ready

The following are the initial setup verification steps to be taken before the recipe can be executed:

1. Create or select a GCP project.
2. Enable billing and enable the default APIs (some APIs such as BigQuery, storage, monitoring, and a few others are enabled automatically).
3. Verify that Google Cloud SDK is installed on your development machine.
4. Verify that the default project is set properly:

$ gcloud config list 

5. The VM which runs MongoDB from our first recipe allows connections only from the localhost. We'll have to modify the configuration to allow connections from the external world.
6. SSH into the VM from the Console:

7. Navigate ...