In this section, we will see how to deploy JEE applications in Google Compute Engine (IaaS offering) and Google App Engine (PaaS offering). Compute Engine (https://cloud.google.com/compute/) can be considered an AWS EC2 counterpart, and App Engine (https://cloud.google.com/appengine ) an Elastic Beanstalk counterpart. You need to have a Google account to login to Cloud Console at https://console.cloud.google.com. You need to have at least one project created in Google Cloud to deploy applications. When you login to the Cloud Console, it will prompt you to create a project if there are no projects already available:

All you need to enter in the Create Project page is the name of the project. The Project ID will be automatically selected for you. You should keep this Project ID handy, because many SDK commands need a Project ID as one of their parameters.

If you already have projects, but want to create a new project for this book, open the Google Cloud Console web page and go to the IAM & admin | Manage resources page. Click the Create Project link on the page.