Connect to https://console.cloud.google.com/education?pli=1
Gave account number

at https://console.cloud.google.com/billing/009CC2-7B0A0D-B3AE7D

Pressed Project arrow -- choose Create project

Choose SysAdminA as name
  Project id is sysadmina-156503

Got to dashboard
  https://console.cloud.google.com/home/dashboard?project=sysadmina-156503

Select Try Compute Engine (Get started)

Got offer of tutorial

Settled for a micro(1 shared, 0.6GB memory) Debian GNU/Linux 8 (Jessie)

Opened SSH

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https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/

gcloud compute
setting up LAMP
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https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/compute/

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-debian-ubuntu