How to Create Python Development Environment In Google Cloud Platform

In this blog, I will discuss How to Create Python Development Environment In the Google Cloud Platform.

Creating and Connecting to a Virtual Machine

• In the GCP Console go to Navigation Menu >Compute Engine> VM Instance.

• Click on Create Instance

• Configure the following settings:

Name: dev-instance

Region: us-central1 (Iowa)

Zone: us-central1-a

Machine configuration: N1

Identity and API: Select Allow full access to all Cloud APIs.

Firewall: Enable Allow HTTP traffic.

Leave the remaining settings as their defaults, and click Create.

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• On the VM instances page click on SSH.

• It will launch a browser-hosted SSH session.

Installing software on the VM instance

• In the SSH session, we have to update the Debian package list, copy-paste the command.

sudo apt-get update

• Now install Git, copy-paste the command.

sudo apt-get install git

Enter y to continue because we are accepting the use of additional disk space.

• Now install Python, copy-paste the command.

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools python3-dev build-essential

Enter Y to continue because we are accepting the use of additional disk space.

• Now install pip, copy-paste the command.

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py

sudo python3 get-pip.py

Configure the VM to Run Application Software

• Now check python and pip versions.

python3 --version
pip3 --version

• Clone the repository you want.

git clone https://github.com/mayankchourasia/GCP

• server main.py{yourfilename}
• Run the web server and check your output by clicking External IP of VM.
• To stop server ctrl+C in ssh.

Conclusion

In the article, I give a view that how we can Set up a Python Development Environment.

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