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Create a Compute Engine VM

This page describes how to create a Compute Engine VM.

    As the first step to create a connector VM, create a Compute Engine VM.
  1. To create a Compute Engine VM in your Google Cloud project, run the following gcloud command:
    gcloudcomputeinstancescreateVM_NAME--zone=ZONE--project=PARTNER_PROJECT
  2. To create an SSH connection to the created VM, run the following gcloud command:
    gcloudcomputessh--zoneZONEVM_NAME--projectPARTNER_PROJECT

    Ensure that the firewall allows TCP ingress on port 22 of the VM.

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Last updated 2026-02-18 UTC.