Create a Project

Create a GCP Project so that you can create the necessary cloud components for cloud scaling.

GCP documentation can be found at Creating and Managing Projects.

Google Cloud Platform projects form the basis for creating, enabling, and using all Cloud Platform services including managing APIs, enabling billing, adding and removing collaborators, and managing permissions for Cloud Platform resources.

  1. Login to the GCP console.
  2. Click the project selector menu.
  3. Click NEW PROJECT.
  4. For Project Name, enter a name for the project.
    The name can be anything meaningful to your organization, e.g., pc_cloudproject.
  5. Click CREATE.
    It may take a few moments to create the project.
  6. Using a browser, navigate to the following URL: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/library/compute.googleapis.com?project=PROJECTNAME
    where PROJECTNAME is the name of the project.
  7. Click Enable.
    Note: If you have administrator permissions, you can navigate to the project from the notification and click Enable on Compute Engine API to enable the billing API.