Setting Up a Google Cloud Instance GPU for fast.ai for Free

EDIT* This guide was written for fastai version 1, which at the current date and time (Jan 2018) is in the midst of transitioning to the a newer version, dubbed fastai v2. An updated guide will be coming soon. As a deep learning enthusiast in Malaysia, one of the biggest issues I have is securing a cheap GPU option to run my models on. If you're like me and come from a country where paying $80-$100 every month for AWS GPUs is too expensive, I'll show you how I set up a my GPU on GCP without incurring any cost at all. In this article I'll walk you through setting up a google cloud computing instance with a 500gb SSD, a 3.75gb ram Broadwell CPU and a Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU.