A recurring issue when working with Compute Engine is that newly created Instances have only 10GB of free space available. To take advantage of the full disk size you need to manually partition and resize it. This article shows one method of accomplishing this task. ...
Overview The Google Compute Engine core concepts video provides a great overview of the technology. Please take a moment to watch it. As the video shows, Compute Engine is defined by Resources, and each of these Resources is available through the Compute Engine API. You can access this API through the Google API Explorer or by installing the gcloud sdk. ...
Google Compute Engine allows you to make custom images from a running virtual machine. The documentation provides a sufficient example but is a little bit scattered. This article collects and presents all the steps necessary to create your own Compute Engine images that you can use as a base for virtual machines. ...