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Launch the Nginx Stack
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Google Cloud Marketplace provides a way to launch common software packages and stacks on Compute Engine with just a few clicks. Many common web frameworks, databases, CMSs, and CRMs are supported. This is one of the fastest ways to get up and running on the Google Cloud.
In this hands-on lab you'll learn how to launch and configure a Marketplace service on the Google Cloud.
Read these instructions. Labs are timed and you cannot pause them. The timer, which starts when you click Start Lab, shows how long Google Cloud resources are made available to you.
This hands-on lab lets you do the lab activities in a real cloud environment, not in a simulation or demo environment. It does so by giving you new, temporary credentials you use to sign in and access Google Cloud for the duration of the lab.
To complete this lab, you need:
Click the Start Lab button. If you need to pay for the lab, a dialog opens for you to select your payment method. On the left is the Lab Details pane with the following:
Click Open Google Cloud console (or right-click and select Open Link in Incognito Window if you are running the Chrome browser).
The lab spins up resources, and then opens another tab that shows the Sign in page.
Tip: Arrange the tabs in separate windows, side-by-side.
If necessary, copy the Username below and paste it into the Sign in dialog.
You can also find the Username in the Lab Details pane.
Click Next.
Copy the Password below and paste it into the Welcome dialog.
You can also find the Password in the Lab Details pane.
Click Next.
Click through the subsequent pages:
After a few moments, the Google Cloud console opens in this tab.
In this section you'll learn how to create Nginx Stack on Compute Engine with Google Cloud Marketplace.
You should see the Marketplace home page, which includes a search engine.
In the search box that says "Search Marketplace", type "Nginx".
Then click on the Bitnami package for NGINX Open Source
tile to select the platform.
Now click Get Started.
Click the checkbox to accept the terms and conditions, then click on Agree.
Click Deploy
If prompted, click on Enable for the Compute Engine API and the Infrastructure Manager API.
Once the project is created you'll be taken to the New Nginx deployment page in the Cloud Console to configure your Nginx instance.
Now do the following:
Choose a name for your instance (for example nginxstack-1
).
Under Deployment Service Account, select Existing Account and choose the account Compute Engine default service account
Select zone as
Leave as default:
Click Deploy to launch your Nginx Stack.
Creating the VM instance and deploying the Nginx Stack may take a few minutes. Cloud Deployment Manager will provide progress details.
Click Check my progress to verify the objective.
Once your Nginx stack has been deployed you can verify that everything worked correctly. Your screen should look something like this:
You should see something that looks like this:
In the Cloud Console, click on the Resources tab, and then click on the Resource name(for example nginxstack-1-vm
) for Compute Engine.
Click on the SSH for the VM instance in the console to open an SSH prompt in a new browser window.
You can use standard Unix commands like ps
to see if Nginx is running on your instance.
Try typing the following into Cloud Shell:
Output:
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Manual last updated January 24, 2025
Lab last tested January 24, 2025
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