1 00:00:01,030 --> 00:00:04,190 In this video we're going to sign up for a new Google cloud account. 2 00:00:04,210 --> 00:00:08,540 Now when you sign up for an account you get automatically three hundred dollars in free credit. 3 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:13,150 If you already have a Google cloud account you might want to create a brand new account just you can 4 00:00:13,150 --> 00:00:17,500 get those 300 dollars in for your credits to guarantee that you will not have to spend anything in this 5 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:18,280 course. 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,660 But at any rate I'm going to leave it up to you whether you use an existing account or create a new 7 00:00:22,660 --> 00:00:23,160 one. 8 00:00:23,860 --> 00:00:28,270 So to get started we're going to open up a new browser tab and navigate to cloud dot google dot com 9 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:32,820 slash free and you should see a page that looks like this right here. 10 00:00:32,820 --> 00:00:35,310 There are many pages you can go to to sign up for new accounts. 11 00:00:35,310 --> 00:00:40,140 I point out this one in particular just because it gives you some information about this free tier that 12 00:00:40,140 --> 00:00:43,100 they have there will be a blue button right here. 13 00:00:43,170 --> 00:00:46,740 If you're not signed in it will say something like sign up for new accounts. 14 00:00:46,770 --> 00:00:51,270 Otherwise if you're already signed in it will say something like go to console so if you do not have 15 00:00:51,270 --> 00:00:53,360 an account click on Create an account. 16 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,160 It will then prompt you to enter in your region in the world. 17 00:00:57,240 --> 00:00:58,560 So enter in your region. 18 00:00:58,650 --> 00:01:02,040 It will then prompt you to enter in some billing details. 19 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:04,980 You'll also be asked if you are an individual or a business. 20 00:01:04,980 --> 00:01:06,480 Chances are you're an individual. 21 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:11,430 So change that a little dropdown to say you're an individual and then enter in those billing details. 22 00:01:11,430 --> 00:01:16,190 Again this entire option requires a credit card even though we will probably not be spending any money. 23 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:22,840 Thanks to this free credit once you go through that sign up process you'll eventually be dumped at a 24 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:24,670 pace that looks like this right here. 25 00:01:24,730 --> 00:01:31,660 This is the Google cloud console and we can use this page to navigate through a ton of different features. 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,880 The first thing we're going to do here is sign up for a new project. 27 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:39,300 So at the very top left hand side you're going to see something that maybe says My first project or 28 00:01:39,300 --> 00:01:42,660 something similar I'm going to click that dropdown. 29 00:01:42,660 --> 00:01:48,390 Then on the right hand side at the very top I going to click on new project you'll see a window like 30 00:01:48,390 --> 00:01:49,390 this right here. 31 00:01:49,510 --> 00:01:57,230 I'm going to create a new project name with something like about ticketing dash Dev I'll then click 32 00:01:57,230 --> 00:01:58,550 on Create. 33 00:01:58,550 --> 00:02:00,970 Now very importantly this happens all the time. 34 00:02:01,100 --> 00:02:05,390 When you first create a project you do not immediately jump into that project. 35 00:02:05,390 --> 00:02:11,150 In other words this dashboard over here is still showing just my general dashboard a little pop up on 36 00:02:11,150 --> 00:02:15,140 the very top right hand side will probably open or if it doesn't there's a little button you can click 37 00:02:15,140 --> 00:02:18,180 right there and it will say that it's creating the project. 38 00:02:18,200 --> 00:02:21,340 So it actually takes a minute or two to create the project itself. 39 00:02:21,340 --> 00:02:29,030 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. 40 00:02:29,130 --> 00:02:33,600 We'll notice that the project selector yup you're at the top left now says ticketing dash Dev. 41 00:02:34,020 --> 00:02:35,770 And now we can start to use this dashboard. 42 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:40,770 Under this project OK so that's some initial setup. 43 00:02:40,780 --> 00:02:43,450 Let's take a pause right here and continue in just a moment.