GCS & GCE Challenge Lab

Hello folks, how are you?

I’m getting back to the ACG right now and recapping on things here.

So, I executed the GCE & GCS Challenge Lab today again, and the commands for that would be like below:

#: create the new project, you probably need to change the below one as it should be unique
gcloud projects create mytestproject03097551 --enable-cloud-apis  

#: enable the billing account for the created project  
#: list billing accounts  
gcloud alpha billing accounts list  

#: link the project and the billing acocunt 
#: (fix the "AccessDeniedException: 403 The project to be billed is associated with an absent billing account")  
gcloud alpha billing projects link mytestproject03097551 --billing-account XXXXXXXXXX  

#: list projects
gcloud projects list  

#: set the current session project's
gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]

#: set the default region and the default zone on the cloud shell
gcloud config set compute/region us-west2  
gcloud config set compute/zone us-west2-b  

#: list configurations you have currently
gcloud config configurations list

#: create the bucket - the name should be unique, you probably need to change the below one**  
gsutil mb gs://mybuckwb027564/  

#: create the instance with the userdata script, the metadata for the bucket and the scopes for 
#: monitoring, storage and logging. I placed the Mattias script at the home of my user in the 
#: Cloud Shell, where I executed the below
gcloud compute instances create myvm01 --metadata lab-logs-bucket=gs://mybuckwb027564/ 
--metadata-from-file startup-script=script.sh --scopes storage-rw,monitoring-write,logging-write 
--machine-type f1-micro  

#: here you'd be argued by the process if you want to add the compute.googleapis.com or not. 
#: I pressed "y" and let it to enable the API. Some APIs need to be anabled for new projects.
#: Give it some time to run so you will see the file created at the bucket you created.  

#: list the bucket to verify if the file was already moved from the instance to the bucket
gsutil ls gs://mybuckwb01/machine-myvm01-finished.txt

* Corrected the set region as Mattias called the attention before.

I ran the above some times, and over the last three times, I got the final expected outcome:

wagne[email protected]:~ (omega-presence-234823)$ gsutil ls gs://mybuckwb01/machine-myvm01-finished.txt  
gs://mybuckwb01/machine-myvm01-finished.txt

[email protected]:~ (mytestproject03097550)$ gsutil ls gs://mybuckwb02/machine-myvm01-finished.txt  
gs://mybuckwb02/machine-myvm01-finished.txt  

[email protected]:~ (mytestproject03097551)$ gsutil ls gs://mybuckwb027564/machine-myvm01-finished.txt  
gs://mybuckwb027564/machine-myvm01-finished.txt

So, you need to avoid spending money and then, follow what Mattias says, clean up your stuff after working on labs:

#: list projects
[email protected]:~ (mytestproject03097551)$ gcloud projects list  
PROJECT_ID             NAME                   PROJECT_NUMBER  
mytestproject03097551  mytestproject03097551  57519217666  

#: remove your recently created project
[email protected]:~ (mytestproject03097551)$ gcloud projects delete mytestproject03097551  
Your project will be deleted.  
Do you want to continue (Y/n)?  Y  
Deleted [https://cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects/mytestproject03097551].  
You can undo this operation for a limited period by running '  
        commands below. See https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-projects for information on shutting down projects  
         $ gcloud projects undelete mytestproject03097551

Question: removing a project, so we remove everything created on or for that project. That is a good practice when we need to remove everything we created to avoid incurring charges?

Folks, let me know if it’s OK or not to publish answers for the challenges. I understand if not and won’t post more of this as I’m going through the training.

I hope it helps. Thanks!

Cleanup Steps:

Delete Instance

gcloud compute instances delete myvm --quiet 

Delete Bucket

gsutil rm -r gs://bucket-name/

unlink the project from the billing account

gcloud beta billing projects unlink projectname

Verify,

gcloud beta billing accounts list

Copy the billing account number and use below command

gcloud beta billing projects list --billing-account=XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX

gcloud projects delete projectname --quiet

Verify project deletion,

gcloud projects list