Create a Memorystore for Memcached instance by using the Google Cloud console

Creating a Memcached instance

1. Go to the Memorystore for Memcached page in the Google Cloud console.
   Memorystore for Memcached
   

2. Click the Create Instance button.

3. Select the configurations for your new instance on the Create a Memcached instance page in the Google Cloud console:

   • Enter an instance ID using only lowercase letters, numbers, and hyphens. Start with a letter.
     • For example, my-memcached-instance-1.
   • Choose us-central1 from the Region dropdown.
   • Choose Automatically distribute from the Zone dropdown.
   • Enter 2 under Nodes to create two nodes.
   • Choose 1 GB of Memory per node.
   • Choose 1 for Cores per node.

   • Select default for the Authorized network.

4. Click Create.

5. After the instance is created, click the instance ID to view the instance details page.

6. Write down the IP address of one of your nodes.

Connecting to your instance from a Compute Engine VM

To test the connection:

1. Connect to a Linux VM. For steps to connect to a Linux VM, see Quickstart Using a Linux VM. If you used a Debian based image to create your VM instance as described in the quickstart, install telnet using apt-get:

   sudo apt-get install telnet
   

2. From the terminal, telnet to the IP address of one of the Memcached nodes. Replace node-ip-address with the IP address of your node.

   telnet node-ip-address 11211
   

   You should see the following output with the [bracketed-variables] replaced your project's variables:

   Trying [node-ip-address]…
   Connected to [node-ip-address]
   

3. In the telnet session, enter some Memcached commands:

   Enter:

   get greeting
   

   Result:

   END
   

   Enter:

   set greeting 1 0 11
   hello world
   

   Result:

   STORED
   

   Enter:

   get greeting
   

   Result:

   VALUE greeting 1 11
   hello world
   END
   

Memorystore for Memcached supports standard open source Memcached libraries.