Basically four steps:
- install SDK and initialize a new project via console
- upload and generate a new GCE image for your project
- instantiate a new instance on GCE using the image
- follow a known path
- Sign up for Google Compute Engine
- Download and install the Cloud SDK
- Authenticate your client
- Set your project ID - "A project ID is the customized name you chose when you created the project, or when you activated an API that required you to create a project ID. It can be found in the Dashboard of the project ... ", see GCE doc
That's it for the first step...
May I suggest a helpful comment saying that the raw image is required to be named
disk.raw
in the tarball.