Set up a Virtual Machine in the Cloud
Google provides a quickstart guide to setting up a virtual machine.
- Select Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as your OS.
- Connect via a browser window.
Using Your Virtual Machine
- Continue with the Data Carpentry Tutorial
- Because tmux is already installed, try installing R on your virtual machine. First, if you try to run
R you will get an error that it isn’t installed, and you will be provided with installation instructions. When you try apt install r-base-core you should receive an error that you don’t have root privileges. To install with privileges use sudo apt install r-base-core.
Backup your Virtual Machine
- Click Snapshots on your cloud site and Create Snapshot
Set up Multiple Similar Servers
- Click Images and Create Image
- Select source: snapshot
- Select your snapshot
- Click Create
- Under the main Images window select your Image and Create Instance
- Open a command line browser for this Instance
- Type
R and you’ll see that it is also installed on this server
Delete Your Virtual Machine (and other work)
Use Google’s quickstart guide deletion instructions. If you don’t delete your machine you will be charged hourly for it.