Video on how to setup Google Compute Engine

[Dos Branding]

Greetings is there a video showing how to setup Google Compute Engine?

Also is it possible to update the tutorial to use either Ubuntu 16 or Ubuntu 18? 

I am struggling with it because my external links are not showing up even after I submitted a private ticket. 

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Dos, 

You may find videos and other related GCE instruction material on the "Videos and Samples" documentation page. A series of quick-starts is to be found on the "Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform" page as well. 

[Dos Branding]

Please note I have created a private issue number 120953373, showing the error that I keep receiving. Requesting for assistance as I am unable to complete tutorial. 

On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 2:58 PM 'George (Cloud Platform Support)' via Google App Engine <google-a...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hello Dos, 

You may find videos and other related GCE instruction material on the "Videos and Samples" documentation page. A series of quick-starts is to be found on the "Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform" page as well. 

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[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Dos, 

You have done the right thing, opening issue 120953373. Now you can follow developments and instructions in the issue itself. The Support Person has confirmed that the tutorial works as expected. There are other tutorials you may choose to follow, to round up your general knowledge of the Cloud platform. 

This discussion group is oriented more towards general opinions, trends, and issues of general nature touching the app engine. For coding and programming architecture, as well as training yourself in Cloud Platform matters, you may be better served in dedicated forums such as stackoverflow, where experienced programmers are within reach and ready to help. The Public Issue Tracker is not meant to offer training, but to help recording and fixing actual Platform issues. As mentioned, you may find videos and other related GCE instruction material on the "Videos and Samples" documentation page. 

[Dos Branding]

Hi George,  I sent more information showing the new error I received. What could be causing the error?

It says that the project name cannot match the project id, yet this is created automatically. 

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[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Dos, 

You need to authenticate and set the default project: 

gcloud auth login

gcloud config set project PROJECT

As mentioned, you have done the right thing, opening issue 120953373. The advantage is now that you can follow developments and instructions in the issue itself; you don't need to post things in parallel here.

Documentation is provided mainly as text. What would be the use of video for the two above commands? It wouldn't even show the face of a person. The text in itself is self-explanatory, without video support. As in case of all new projects, reading documentation is unavoidable, and no amount of videos can supplant that. 

[Dos Branding]

I am still having problems with this tutorial. Since Ubuntu 14.04 is no longer supported is there a way I can ask for a feature request to update to Ubuntu 18.04? 

Also https://github.com/googlearchive/todomvc-mongodb is archived, does it still work?  

[George (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hi Dos, 

You may choose to install Ubuntu 14.04 if you wish, you may install it as Linux Guest Environment for Compute Engine. Related details are to be found on the "Installing the Linux Guest Environment" documentation page. The issue you opened, 120953373, is the proper way to track progress. 

It is not clear how googlearchive/todomvc-mongodb is needed or relevant in this context. You may certainly try it as a second exercise. If this represents a separate problem, you are encouraged to open a separate issue in the Public Issue Tracker.