Hosting Your AI Agent on Google Cloud VM: A Complete Setup Guide

Hosting Your AI Agent on Google Cloud VM: A Complete Setup Guide Step-by-step guide to running an AI agent on GCP — from zero to "it texts me on Telegram" Why Host on a VM? AI agents need to run somewhere 24/7. Your laptop isn't ideal (sleep, network changes, battery). A cloud VM gives you: Always-on compute (free tier is enough for personal projects) Static IP option via Cloudflare tunnel Full control over the environment No vendor lock-in (it's just a Linux VM) This guide shows you how to set