Project saving on GCP
Needed a server on for about 4 hours a day to do some Google Drive operations, needs to be on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to save on egress. Brushed up on my GCP skills, used GCP preemptive Virtual Machine (VM) Instance, Google Cloud Functions and Google Cloud Scheduler to completed a weekend project in 2 hours. Even had enough time to document it and write this blog page. ENJOY!!
Created a GCP Preemptible VM instance
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/create-start-preemptible-instance
Created Start and Stop function
https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/docs/start-and-stop-compute-engine-instances-on-a-schedule
Created Start and Stop Scheduler to trigger function
https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/docs/quickstart#create_a_job
Estimated Cost you ask?? Not more than $5 a month
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