To use GCP, you need to have a Google account such as Gmail (https://mail.google.com/mail/), which many people already have. Then sign up to GCP using your Google account by following these steps:
- Go to the https://cloud.google.com website then click the Try it free button
- Log in to Google using your Google account
- Register with GCP and enter your personal information and billing information
That's it!
Once registration is complete, you'll see the GCP Web Console page. In the beginning, it may ask you to create one project; the default name could be My First Project. You can keep it, but we will create another project in this chapter, the better to help you understand.
The GCP Web Console is enough as a first step. But to keep using the Web Console is not recommended for DevOps, because human manual input always causes human errors and Google might change the Web Console design in the future.
Thus, we will use the CLI. GCP provides a CLI tool called Cloud SDK (https://cloud.google.com/sdk/). So, let's create one new GCP project and then install Cloud SDK on your machine.