In this video we're going to sign up for a new Google cloud account.
Now when you sign up for an account you get automatically three hundred dollars in free credit.
If you already have a Google cloud account you might want to create a brand new account just you can
get those 300 dollars in for your credits to guarantee that you will not have to spend anything in this
course.
But at any rate I'm going to leave it up to you whether you use an existing account or create a new
one.
So to get started we're going to open up a new browser tab and navigate to cloud dot google dot com
slash free and you should see a page that looks like this right here.
There are many pages you can go to to sign up for new accounts.
I point out this one in particular just because it gives you some information about this free tier that
they have there will be a blue button right here.
If you're not signed in it will say something like sign up for new accounts.
Otherwise if you're already signed in it will say something like go to console so if you do not have
an account click on Create an account.
It will then prompt you to enter in your region in the world.
So enter in your region.
It will then prompt you to enter in some billing details.
You'll also be asked if you are an individual or a business.
Chances are you're an individual.
So change that a little dropdown to say you're an individual and then enter in those billing details.
Again this entire option requires a credit card even though we will probably not be spending any money.
Thanks to this free credit once you go through that sign up process you'll eventually be dumped at a
pace that looks like this right here.
This is the Google cloud console and we can use this page to navigate through a ton of different features.
The first thing we're going to do here is sign up for a new project.
So at the very top left hand side you're going to see something that maybe says My first project or
something similar I'm going to click that dropdown.
Then on the right hand side at the very top I going to click on new project you'll see a window like
this right here.
I'm going to create a new project name with something like about ticketing dash Dev I'll then click
on Create.
Now very importantly this happens all the time.
When you first create a project you do not immediately jump into that project.
In other words this dashboard over here is still showing just my general dashboard a little pop up on
the very top right hand side will probably open or if it doesn't there's a little button you can click
right there and it will say that it's creating the project.
So it actually takes a minute or two to create the project itself.
It's a way for that thing to be created and we'll click on the project and then we'll see a little jump.
We'll notice that the project selector yup you're at the top left now says ticketing dash Dev.
And now we can start to use this dashboard.
Under this project OK so that's some initial setup.
Let's take a pause right here and continue in just a moment.