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Introduction

This section walks you through creating Google Axion C4A Arm virtual machine on GCP with the c4a-standard-4 (4 vCPUs, 16 GB Memory) machine type, using the Google Cloud Console.

If you haven't got a Google Cloud account, you can follow the Learning Path on Getting Started with Google Cloud Platform to get started.

Create an Arm-based Virtual Machine (C4A)

To create a virtual machine based on the C4A Arm architecture:

  1. Open the Google Cloud Console.
  2. Navigate to the card Compute Engine and click on Create Instance.
  3. Under the Machine Configuration:
    • Fill in basic details like Instance Name, Region, and Zone.
    • Choose the Series as C4A.
    • Select a machine type such as c4a-standard-4. Instance Screenshot
  4. Under the OS and Storage, click on Change, pick Ubuntu as the Operating System with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Minimal as the Version. Make sure you pick the version of image for Arm.
  5. Under Networking, enable Allow HTTP traffic to test workloads like NGINX later.
  6. Click on Create, and the instance will launch.

{{% notice Important %}} You should not enable the Allow HTTP traffic permanently, since this poses a security risk. For the long-term, you should only allow traffic from the IP address you use to connect to the instance. {{% /notice %}}

You can access the Google Cloud Console by clicking the SSH button in the instance overview. Use this command line interface (CLI) to run the commands in the remainder of this Learning Path.