In this video, we're going to learn how to access
the Linux Virtual Machines from the Coursera Platform.
As you can see here, there's some information but what we'll be doing in the lab.
It's learning objectives, and how much time you had
to complete it before you could access the lab itself.
First, you'll need to click the checkbox and provide
an electronic signature adhering to Coursera's Honor Code.
Then, you will click the "open tool" button.
After you click the button,
you'll be navigated to a new browser tab.
What you see here, is the Qwiklabs environment.
Each Qwiklab comes with details,
step by step instructions about what you need to do to complete the lab.
To start the lab, go to the top right hand of
the screen and click the green button that says, "start lab."
After you click the button,
it will take some time to load and set up the lab and the environment.
While it's loading, this is a good time
to read through the instructions about what you'll need to do.
After the loading bar has filled up completely,
you're now ready to access the Google Cloud Console.
Google's Cloud Console technology powers the Qwiklab environments.
So, in order to access your Linux Virtual Machine,
first, we need to sign into the Google Console.
To do this, click the orange button on
the left-hand side of the screen that says, "open Google Console".
This will open a new web browser tab that you'll need to sign into.
You will not use your own personal Gmail account to access the Google Console.
If you're using a Gmail account right now,
make sure to sign out of it before moving on to the next step.
Let's go back to the previous tab.
You're going to use the username and password that you see under
the orange "open Google Console" button to authenticate.
To do this, copy the username by clicking the "copy" button on the right-hand side,
then paste into Gmail in the other tab.
Then, we're going to do this for the password too.
Copy the password and paste it into Gmail.
After you pasted the password, click "next."
Next, you'll see a Terms of Service agreement from Gmail.
To continue on, click "accept."
After you click "accept" Gmail will ask you to
provide a recovery phone number and email address.
You don't need to add a recovery phone number or email,
because each time you access Qwiklabs,
you'll use a new Gmail username and password to sign in.
So, for now, just click "done."
Next, you'll see the Google Cloud Platform interface.
A pop-up with the Terms of Service agreement will appear.
And you don't need to sign up for updates because this isn't your email address.
Make sure you do click "yes" to agree to the Terms of Service.
Then click "accept."
Now, you have access to the Google Cloud Platform.
What we want to do now is access Linux Virtual Machine.
To do this, navigate to the menu on the left-hand side of the screen,
go to "Compute Engine" and then click on "VM instances."
You'll now see a Virtual Machine instance of the Linux operating system,
called Linux Dash instance.
There are a couple of ways you can access the Linux Virtual Machine.
You can click on the "project name",
click on the dropdown arrow under "Connect", or click "SSH."
I'm going to click "SSH," this will pop up a new screen.
Let the screen load for a bit, and after a while,
you'll see the Linux operating system appear in the pop-up screen.