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Getting started with .NET on Compute Engine

This tutorial shows how to get started with Compute Engine. Follow this tutorial by deploying a Hello World .NET web app to Compute Engine. For help getting started with App Engine, see the App Engine standard environment.

Objectives

Deploy a Hello World sample app to a single Compute Engine instance.

Prerequisites

In the Cloud de Confiance console, on the project selector page, select or create a Cloud de Confiance project.
Roles required to select or create a project
- Select a project: Selecting a project doesn't require a specific IAM role—you can select any project that you've been granted a role on.
- Create a project: To create a project, you need the Project Creator (roles/resourcemanager.projectCreator), which contains the resourcemanager.projects.create permission. Learn how to grant roles.
Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

Go to project selector
Verify that billing is enabled for your Cloud de Confiance project.
Enable the Compute Engine API.
Roles required to enable APIs
To enable APIs, you need the Service Usage Admin IAM role (roles/serviceusage.serviceUsageAdmin), which contains the serviceusage.services.enable permission. Learn how to grant roles.
Enable the API

Install .NET Core SDK 2.1 or later on your local machine running Microsoft Windows.

Install Web Deploy 3.6 or later on your local machine running Microsoft Windows.

Running the app locally

Download and unzip or clone the sample repository from github:

git clone https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/getting-started-dotnet.git

In a PowerShell window, go into the HelloWorld directory:
```
cd getting-started-dotnet\HelloWorld
```
Start a local web server:
```
dotnet run
```
Open a web browser to localhost:8080.

In your web browser, you see some Hello World text, served from your local machine.
When you're ready to move on, stop the local web server by pressing Control+C.

Deploying to a single instance

This section walks you through running a single instance of your app on Compute Engine.

Single-instance deployment.

Create and configure a Compute Engine instance

From Google Cloud Marketplace, you can launch an instance of Windows running Microsoft IIS on Compute Engine.

In the Cloud de Confiance console, go to the ASP.NET Framework Cloud Marketplace page.

Go to Cloud Marketplace
Click Launch.
Leave the settings set to their default values, and click Deploy.

Wait for the Compute Engine instance to deploy. It usually takes about 5 minutes to deploy.
To display resource information, click VM instance.
To edit the VM instance, click Manage Resource.
Click Set Windows password, and then make a note of the username.
Copy the new Windows password, and then click Close.
In the VM instance details page, make a note of the external IP address.
On your local Windows machine, edit the file HelloWorld/Properties/PublishProfiles/ComputeEngine.pubxml.
Enter your VM instance's external IP address between <MSDeployServiceURL> and </MSDeployServiceURL>. For example, <MSDeployServiceURL>203.0.113.22</MSDeployServiceURL>
Enter the instance's username that you previously noted between <UserName> and </UserName>.
Save your changes to the ComputeEngine.pubxml file.
In a PowerShell window, publish your app to the Compute Engine instance:
```
dotnet publish -c Release `
  /p:PublishProfile=Properties\PublishProfiles\ComputeEngine.pubxml `
  "/p:Password=YOUR-PASSWORD"
```
Replace YOUR-PASSWORD with the password you previously copied.
Open a web browser to your instance's external IP address.

In your web browser, you see some Hello World text, served from your Compute Engine instance.

Manage and monitor an instance

You can use the Cloud de Confiance console to monitor and manage your instance.

To view all of the logs generated by your Compute Engine resources, go to the Logs Explorer page.
Go to Logs Explorer
Cloud Logging is automatically configured to gather logs from various common services, including syslog.