We will create a new project from scratch by following steps. It will help you to understand how does GCP project works:
- Go to the project page by clicking the My First Project link:
Navigating to the project link
- You may see your own projects to choose from, but this time click the + button to create a new one:
Creating a new project
- Type the project name as Kubernetes Cookbook. Then GCP will generate and assign a project ID such as kubernetes-cookbook-12345. Please remember this project ID.
You may notice that your project ID is NOT kubernetes-cookbook, like kubernetes-cookbook-194302 in the screenshot as shown in the following screenshot. And even you click Edit to attempt to change it to kubernetes-cookbook, it doesn't allow it, because the project ID is a unique string for all GCP users. And we already took the kubernetes-cookbook project ID.
Project name and Project ID
- After a few minutes, your project is ready to use. Go back to the project selection page on the top banner and then select your Kubernetes Cookbook project:
Selecting a Kubernetes Cookbook project
Done! You can at any time switch to your project and the Kubernetes Cookbook project. That is is isolated environment; any VPC, VM, IAM users and even billing methods are independent.